Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Table and Figures vii
4. Acknowledgements xv
5. Introduction 3
6. Political Positioning after the Glorious Revolution
7. Introduction 23
8. For Politics, Progresses, or Posterity? Some Alternative Reasons for Building State Apartments 28
9. Holding Court at Marlborough House: The London Residence of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough 47
10. The Question of Style
11. Introduction 73
12. Gothic Architecture and the Liberty Trope 79
13. ‘Whig Gothic’: An Antidote to Houghton Hall 101
14. The House with Two Faces: From Baroque to Palladian at Wentworth Woodhouse 123
15. The Social Politics of the Country House
16. Introduction 147
17. Burke's Exemplum: The ‘Natural Family Mansion’ and Wentworth Woodhouse 151
18. House Painting: Place and Position in Estate Portraiture circa 1770 170
19. The House and Estate of a Rich West Indian: Two Slaveholders in Eighteenth-Century East Anglia 197
20. Houses and Homes
21. Introduction 219
22. The Clives at Home: Self-Fashioning, Collecting, and British India 223
23. William Pitt the Younger, 1759–1806: Reshaping the Political Home 248
24. Afterword: Whose Country House? 275
25. Bibliography 283
26. Contributors 313
27. Index 317