Domestic Space In Britain 1750 1840

Author : Freya Gowrley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501343343
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Domestic Space in Britain, 1750-1840 written by Freya Gowrley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1750 and 1840, the home took on unprecedented social and emotional significance. Focusing on the design, decoration, and reception of a range of elite and middling class homes from this period, Domestic Space in Britain, 1750-1840 demonstrates that the material culture of domestic life was central to how this function of the home was experienced, expressed, and understood at this time. Examining craft production and collection, gift exchange and written description, inheritance and loss, it carefully unpacks the material processes that made the home a focus for contemporaries' social and emotional lives. The first book on its subject, Domestic Space in Britain, 1750-1840 employs methodologies from both art history and material culture studies to examine previously unpublished interiors, spaces, texts, images, and objects. Utilising extensive archival research; visual, material, and textual analysis; and histories of emotion, sociability, and materiality, it sheds light on the decoration and reception of a broad array of domestic spaces. In so doing, it writes a new history of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century domestic space, establishing the materiality of the home as a crucial site for identity formation, social interaction, and emotional expression.

Author : Claire Moran
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501341715
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Domestic Space in France and Belgium written by Claire Moran and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domestic Space in France and Belgium offers a new addition to the growing body of work in Interior Studies. Focused on late 19th and early 20th-century France and Belgium, it addresses an overlooked area of modernity: the domestic sphere and its conception and representation in art, literature and material culture. Scholars from the US, UK, France, Italy, Canada and Belgium offer fresh and exciting interpretations of artworks, texts and modern homes. Comparative and interdisciplinary, it shows through a series of case-studies in literature, art and architecture, how modernity was expressed through domestic life at the turn of the century in France and Belgium.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004694722
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cultural Construction of Hidden Spaces written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-05-23 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay collection focuses on enclosure, deception and secrecy in three spatial areas – the body, clothing and furniture. It contributes to the study of private life and explores the micro-history of hidden spaces. The contents of pockets may prove a surer index to their owner’s real thoughts than anything they say; a piece of furniture with ingenious mechanisms created to conceal secrets may also reveal someone’s attempts to break in and thus give away as much as it holds. Though the book’s focus is on particular material or imagined objects, taken as a whole it exemplifies a range of interdisciplinary encounters between history, literary criticism, art history, philosophy, psychoanalysis, sociology, criminology, archival studies, museology and curating, and women’s studies.

Author : Susan Ware
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199328331
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Women's History written by Susan Ware and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does American history look like with women at the center of the story? From Pocahantas to military women serving in the Iraqi war, this Very Short Introduction chronicles the contributions that women have made to the American experience from a multicultural perspective that emphasizes how gender shapes women's--and men's--lives.

Author : Tim Meldrum
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317883586
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Domestic Service and Gender, 1660-1750 written by Tim Meldrum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exciting new study Tim Meldrum explores the "real lives" of domestic servants. From close examination of court records and other documentary evidence, he has reconstructed the lives of ordinary domestic servants in London. A revealing account of life below the stairs, the gendered nature of domestic service, how different members of the household interacted with one another, it makes a valuable contribution to the "separate spheres" debate.

Author : Alan Brooks-Tyreman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain 1750-1900 written by Alan Brooks-Tyreman and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Matthew M. Reeve
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271086599
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole written by Matthew M. Reeve and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-05-08 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole shows that the Gothic style in architecture and the decorative arts and the tradition of medievalist research associated with Horace Walpole (1717–1797) and his circle cannot be understood independently of their own homoerotic culture. Centered around Walpole’s Gothic villa at Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, Walpole and his “Strawberry Committee” of male friends, designers, and dilettantes invigorated an extraordinary new mode of Gothic design and disseminated it in their own commissions at Old Windsor and Donnington Grove in Berkshire, Lee Priory in Kent, the Vyne in Hampshire, and other sites. Matthew M. Reeve argues that the new “third sex” of homoerotically inclined men and the new “modern styles” that they promoted—including the Gothic style and chinoiserie—were interrelated movements that shaped English modernity. The Gothic style offered the possibility of an alternate aesthetic and gendered order, a queer reversal of the dominant Palladian style of the period. Many of the houses built by Walpole and his circle were understood by commentators to be manifestations of a new queer aesthetic, and in describing them they offered the earliest critiques of what would be called a “queer architecture.” Exposing the role of sexual coteries in the shaping of eighteenth-century English architecture, this book offers a profound and eloquent revision to our understanding of the origins of the Gothic Revival and to medievalism itself. It will be welcomed by architectural historians as well as scholars of medievalism and specialists in queer studies.

Author : Susan Willoughby
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780431073248
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain, 1750-1900 written by Susan Willoughby and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1997-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Shani D'Cruze
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Pleasing Prospect written by Shani D'Cruze and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Based on extensive primary-source research, A Pleasing Prospect considers the changing historical identity of eighteenth-century Colchester from the perspective of its 'middling sort' - a section of society often attached to cultures of politeness and to the practices of consumption and production that helped shape economic change, and which has recently attracted greater attention from historians. Shani D'Cruze reconstructs eighteenth-century social networks along lines of family, kinship, gender, spatiality, religion and politics to examine the relationships between individual and family of biographies and broader historical change and to reflect on the historical identity of the middling sort as well as on eighteenth-century provincial urban society and culture." --Book Jacket.

Author : Jen Manion
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1108596045
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Female Husbands written by Jen Manion and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-18 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely and comprehensive history of female husbands in Anglo-America from the eighteenth through the turn of the twentieth century.