Consumption and the Country House
by:
Jon Stobart (author)
Mark Rothery (author)
Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9780198726265 (0198726260)
ASIN: 0198726260
Publish date: 2016-08-02
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
My twentieth podcast is up! It's my first multi-author interview, as I talk with Jon Stobart and Mark Rothery about their book Consumption and the Country House, which examines the spending patters of the elite on their country houses during the 18th century. Enjoy!
Country houses possess a remarkable endurance as a subject of study. Ever since the publication of Mark Girouard's seminal Life in the English Country House in 1978, scholars have spent an increasing amount of attention exploring their design and construction, the lives of their owners, the duties p...