Domestic space
Subtitle: reading the nineteenth-century interior
By: edited by Inga Bryden and Janet Floyd
Contributors: Floyd, Janet; Bryden, Inga, 1966-
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Manchester; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
Subjects: Family -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses; Family -- United States -- History -- 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
Genres: Congresses
Description: "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.
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
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Inga Bryden & Janet Floyd; title: What a rag rug means / Carolyn Steedman; title: Bodies and mirrors : the childhood interiors of Ruskin, Pater and Stevenson / Ann C. Colley; title: Political pincushions : decorating the abolitionist interior 1787-1865 / Lynne Walker & Vron Ware; title: Refracting the gaselier : understanding Victorian responses to domestic gas lighting / Sarah Milan; title: Tranquil havens? : critiquing the idea of home as the middle-class sanctuary / Moira Donald; title: District visiting and the constitution of domestic space in the mid-nineteenth century / Martin Hewitt; title: Gendered space : housing, privacy and domesticity in the nineteenth-century United States / S.J. Kleinberg; title: Theatre and the private sphere in the fiction of Louisa May Alcott / Alan Louis Ackerman, Jr.; title: The architecture of manners : Henry James, Edith Wharton and The Mount / Sarah Luria