Details

Subject(s)

• Interior decoration—Great Britain—History—18th century [Browse]
• Interior decoration—Great Britain—History—19th century [Browse]
• Domestic space—Great Britain—History—18th century [Browse]
• Domestic space—Great Britain—History—19th century [Browse]
• Material culture—Great Britain—History—18th century [Browse]
• Material culture—Great Britain—History—19th century [Browse]
• Great Britain—Social life and customs—18th century [Browse]
• Great Britain—Social life and customs—19th century [Browse]

Series

Material culture of art and design. [More in this series]

Summary note

"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in Britain, 1750-1840 employs methodologies from both art history and material culture studies to examine previously unpublished interiors, spaces, texts, images, and objects.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"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

• 9781501343360 ((hardcover))
• 150134336X ((hardcover))

LCCN

2021037174

OCLC

1263246619

Other standard number

• 60002460683

RCP

C - S

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