Vickery, Amanda, author.

Behind closed doors : at home in Georgian England / Amanda Vickery.

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2009]
©2009

xviii, 382 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

In this brilliant new work, the author unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. She introduces us to men and women from all walks of life: gentlewoman Anne Dormer in her stately Oxfordshire mansion, bachelor clerk and future novelist Anthony Trollope in his dreary London lodgings, genteel spinsters keeping up appearances in two rooms with yellow wallpaper, servants with only a locking box to call their own. She makes use of upholsterer's ledgers, burglary trials, and other unusual sources to reveal the roles of house and home in economic survival, social success, and political representation during the long eighteenth century. Through the spread of formal visiting, the proliferation of affordable ornamental furnishings, the commercial celebration of feminine artistry at home, and the currency of the language of taste, even modest homes turned into arenas of social campaign and exhibition.

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Households England History 18th century.
Social status England History 18th century.
Sex role England History 18th century.
Social control England History 18th century.
Material culture Great Britain History 18th century.
Ménages (Statistique) Angleterre Histoire 18e siècle.
Statut social Angleterre Histoire 18e siècle.
Rôle selon le sexe Angleterre Histoire 18e siècle.
Contrôle social Angleterre Histoire 18e siècle.
Culture matérielle Grande-Bretagne Histoire 18e siècle.
Customs and Folklore.
Households
Material culture
Sex role
Social control
Social conditions
Social status
Alltag
Haushalt
Dagelijks leven.
Huishoudingen.
Sociale stratificatie.
Sekserol.
Interieurkunst.
Gender roles.
Households Great Britain History 18th century.
Social status Great Britain History 18th century.
Sex role Great Britain History 18th century.
Social control Great Britain History 18th century.
Great Britain History 1714-1837.
England Social conditions 18th century.
Grande-Bretagne Histoire 1714-1837.
Angleterre Conditions sociales 18e siècle.
England
Great Britain
Engeland.
Great Britain Social conditions 18th century.
Storbritannien historia 1714-1837.
England sociala förhållanden 1700-talet.

History

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 264277
Cote: BIB 195622
Statut: Disponible