Research Catalog

Title

Charleston and Monk's House : the intimate house museums of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell / Nuala Hancock.

Author

Hancock, Nuala.

Publication

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2012

Holdings

Details

Description

x, 226 p. : ill., ports.; 25 cm.

Subject

• Bell, Vanessa, 1879-1961 > Homes and haunts
• Charleston Farmhouse (West Firle, England)
• Historic house museums > England
• Monk's House (Rodmell, England)
• Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 > Homes and haunts

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographic references (p. [208]-217) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Biography and the literary artistic house museum -- Spatial choreography: gestural bodies and the rhythms of living -- Spatial embodiment: the anatomy of the house, the architecture of interior space -- A poetics of gardens -- Spatial revelations: the artefact unveiled -- Museum space: space poetically reconstructed.

ISBN

• 0748646736
• 9780748646739