“Once was this a spirit’s dwelling": Rose Macaulay and the church in ruins

Charles Lock

“Once was this a spirit’s dwelling": Rose Macaulay and the church in ruins

Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies

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This essay is a meditation on ruins that draws on the writings of Rose Macaulay (1881-1958), notably her novel The World My Wilderness (1950) and her study of antiquity and the picturesque, Pleasure of Ruins (1953), with a view to delineating the relationship between churches and ruins, mediated and negotiated by stones.

Original language	English
Journal	International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church
Volume	12
Issue number	3-4
Pages (from-to)	324-341
ISSN	1474-225X
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2012

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