Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England At Home in Georgian England
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Sprache:Englisch
Fr. 36.90
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
Dezember 2009
Abbildungen
w. 80 b&w Illustrationen and 25 col. images. 23,5 cm
Verlag
Yale University PressSeitenzahl
368
Maße (L/B/H)
24/16.4/3 cm
Gewicht
1038 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-300-15453-5
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, burglarytrials, 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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