M. Kelsall – författare

This volume examines how Jefferson, in the process of inventing the USA as the first new nation of the Romantic era, sought to find an appropriate imagery to represent the people, their homeland and the cultural ideal to which they should aspire. It examines in detail the role of his villa at Monticello in embodying the national ideal, shows how those ideals emerged and how they were subsequently challenged by the reinterpretation of Jefferson's iconography.

This study examines the significance given to the country house in Ireland under the Union and how this is represented in the works of Edgeworth, Lever, Trollope, Martin and Somerville, Bowen and Lady Gregory. The Irish country house is set in a classical and European context as the centre for "the good life" and the pinnacle of "civilization". In Ireland, that inherited tradition was challenged by an alternative culture nominated as "savage". This book explores how the Irish country house was the focus of conflict between and symbiosis of "civilization" and "savagery".