Title & Author:

Domestic space : reading the nineteenth-century interior / edited by Inga Bryden and Janet Floyd.

Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Description:

xi, 219 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
"This volume of essays grew out of an interdisciplinary, international conference ... held at King Alfred's College, Winchester [England], in April 1996"--Acknowledgments.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Inga Bryden & Janet Floyd -- What a rag rug means / Carolyn Steedman -- Bodies and mirrors : the childhood interiors of Ruskin, Pater and Stevenson / Ann C. Colley -- Political pincushions : decorating the abolitionist interior 1787-1865 / Lynne Walker & Vron Ware -- Refracting the gaselier : understanding Victorian responses to domestic gas lighting / Sarah Milan -- Tranquil havens? : critiquing the idea of home as the middle-class sanctuary / Moira Donald -- District visiting and the constitution of domestic space in the mid-nineteenth century / Martin Hewitt -- Gendered space : housing, privacy and domesticity in the nineteenth-century United States / S.J. Kleinberg -- Theatre and the private sphere in the fiction of Louisa May Alcott / Alan Louis Ackerman, Jr. -- The architecture of manners : Henry James, Edith Wharton and The Mount / Sarah Luria.

Summary:

"This volume engages with debates about nineteenth-century domestic interiors, drawing on design history, gender studies, social and economic history and literary criticism." "This book will be of interest to students and scholars working within the disciplines represented, as well as within cultural studies."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

0719054508
9780719054501

Subject:

Families Great Britain 19th century Congresses.
Families United States 19th century Congresses.
Households Great Britain History 19th century Congresses.
Households United States History 19th century Congresses.
Interior architecture Great Britain History 19th century Congresses.
Interior architecture United States History 19th century Congresses.
Families Great Britain History 19th century Congresses.
Families United States History 19th century Congresses.
Families History 19th century.
Households History 19th century.
Familles Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle Congrès.
Familles États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle Congrès.
Ménages (Statistique) Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle Congrès.
Ménages (Statistique) États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle Congrès.
Architecture intérieure Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle Congrès.
Architecture intérieure États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle Congrès.
Familles Histoire 19e siècle.
Ménages (Statistique) Histoire 19e siècle.
Familles Grande-Bretagne 19e siècle Congrès.
Familles États-Unis 19e siècle Congrès.
21.84 interior design and decoration.
71.56 material culture (sociology)
Families.
Households.
Interior architecture.
Architektur
Ausstattung
Soziologie
Interieurs.
Great Britain.
United States.

Form/genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.
History.

Added entries:

Floyd, Janet.
Bryden, Inga, 1966-
Cairns Collection of American Women Writers.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 206160
Call No.: HQ518 .D6 1999
Status: Available