Domestic Space In Britain 1750 1840

Author : Freya Gowrley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781501343346

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Domestic Space in Britain, 1750-1840 by Freya Gowrley Pdf

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in Britain, 1750-1840 employs methodologies from both art history and material culture studies to examine previously unpublished interiors, spaces, texts, images, and objects.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
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781501341717

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Domestic Space in France and Belgium by Claire Moran Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004694729

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The Cultural Construction of Hidden Spaces by Anonim Pdf

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
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780199328338

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American Women's History by Susan Ware Pdf

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 : Alan Brooks-Tyreman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OCLC:1285475961

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Britain 1750-1900 by Alan Brooks-Tyreman Pdf

Author : Matthew M. Reeve
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780271086590

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Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole by Matthew M. Reeve Pdf

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
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0431073244

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Britain, 1750-1900 by Susan Willoughby Pdf

Author : Shani D'Cruze
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131669207

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A Pleasing Prospect by Shani D'Cruze Pdf

"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 : Joseph Morrissey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783319703565

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Women’s Domestic Activity in the Romantic-Period Novel, 1770-1820 by Joseph Morrissey Pdf

This book examines women’s domestic occupations in the Romantic-period novel at the most intimately human level. By examining the momentary thought and feeling processes that informed the playing of a harp, the stitching of a dress, or the reading of a gothic novel, the book shifts the focus from women’s socio-cultural contributions through domestic endeavor to how women’s day-to-day tasks shaped experiences of joy, friendship, resentment, and self. Through an understanding of domestic occupations as forms of human action, the study emphasises the inherent unpredictability of quotidian activities and draws attention to their capacity for exceeding cultural parameters. Specifically, the book examines needlework, musical accomplishment, novel reading, and sensibility in the work of Charlotte Smith, Jane Austen, and Frances Burney, giving new perspectives on established canonical works while also providing the most sustained analysis of Charlotte Smith’s little studied novel, Ethelinde, to date.

Author : Siobhan Carroll
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812246780

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An Empire of Air and Water by Siobhan Carroll Pdf

Planetary spaces such as the poles, the oceans, the atmosphere, and subterranean regions captured the British imperial imagination. Intangible, inhospitable, or inaccessible, these blank spaces—what Siobhan Carroll calls "atopias"—existed beyond the boundaries of known and inhabited places. The eighteenth century conceived of these geographic outliers as the natural limits of imperial expansion, but scientific and naval advances in the nineteenth century created new possibilities to know and control them. This development preoccupied British authors, who were accustomed to seeing atopic regions as otherworldly marvels in fantastical tales. Spaces that an empire could not colonize were spaces that literature might claim, as literary representations of atopias came to reflect their authors' attitudes toward the growth of the British Empire as well as the part they saw literature playing in that expansion. Siobhan Carroll interrogates the role these blank spaces played in the construction of British identity during an era of unsettling global circulations. Examining the poetry of Samuel T. Coleridge and George Gordon Byron and the prose of Sophia Lee, Mary Shelley, and Charles Dickens, as well as newspaper accounts and voyage narratives, she traces the ways Romantic and Victorian writers reconceptualized atopias as threatening or, at times, vulnerable. These textual explorations of the earth's highest reaches and secret depths shed light on persistent facets of the British global and environmental imagination that linger in the twenty-first century.

Author : Tony Chapman,Jenny Hockey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134695843

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Ideal Homes? by Tony Chapman,Jenny Hockey Pdf

Ideal Homes? shows how both popular images and experiences of home life relate to the ability of society's members to produce and respond to social change. The book provides for the first time an analysis of the space of the home and the experiences of home life by writers from a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, architecture, geography and anthropology. It covers a range of subjects, including gender roles, different generations relationships to home, the changing nature of the family, transition and risk and alternative visions of home.

Author : Robert Aldrich,Martyn Lyons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : France
ISBN : UOM:39015050523094

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The Sphinx in the Tuileries and Other Essays in Modern French History by Robert Aldrich,Martyn Lyons Pdf

Author : Jen Manion
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108596046

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Female Husbands by Jen Manion Pdf

A timely and comprehensive history of female husbands in Anglo-America from the eighteenth through the turn of the twentieth century.

Author : Amy Prendergast
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137512710

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Literary Salons Across Britain and Ireland in the Long Eighteenth Century by Amy Prendergast Pdf

The eighteenth-century salon played an important role in shaping literary culture, while both creating and sustaining transnational intellectual networks. Focusing on archival materials, this book is the first detailed examination of the literary salon in Ireland, considered in the wider contexts of contemporary salon culture in Britain and France.

Author : Yvette Taylor,Emma Casey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137429087

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Intimacies, Critical Consumption and Diverse Economies by Yvette Taylor,Emma Casey Pdf

This collection explores the relationships between the emotional and material, engaging with and developing the debates surrounding the emotional and material labour involved in producing and reproducing domestic and intimate spaces. The contributions examine the geographies and spaces of consumption in international and local-global spheres.