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Mind the Gap : The Big House in Cinematic Representations of the Anglo-Irish War

Shannon WELLS-LASSAGNE, Author |

In Etudes irlandaises (Vol 43 n 2 Automne-hiver 2018)

It goes without saying that the Big House was intended to be a symbol: as more than one critic has remarked, these houses really were only “big” in comparison to the poverty of the lesser structures that surrounded them. They were to be a bastio[...]

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Town and Country : Juxtaposing Ireland's Big House and Europe's Capitals in Bowen's The House in Paris and The Heat of the Day

Shannon WELLS-LASSAGNE, Author |

In Etudes irlandaises (Vol 30 n 2 2005)

Because Bowen structured The House in Paris and The Heat of the Day around an Irish interlude, one could interpret the Big House as a counterpoint to the European capitals of London and Paris, the primary settings. Upon closer anal[...]

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