Adulterous Alliances
Subtitle: Home, State, and History in Early Modern European Drama and Painting
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: November 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780226326245
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; European history: c 1750 to c 1900; History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800; Literary studies: general; The Arts: General Issues; Painting; Special Subjects In Art; Art; Art & Art Instruction; History: World; Europe; European; Art / History / European; History / Europe / General; Fine Arts; Techniques - Painting; Adultery in art; Home in art; Middle class in art; Painting, Dutch; Working class in art
First sentence: On February 15, 1551, Thomas Arden, a former mayor of the small town of Faversham in Kent and the town's largest landowner, was murdered by his wife, her lover, the lover's sister, two servants, three neighbors, and two hired killers.
Description: "Shakespeare, Vermeer, Lope de Vega, Moliere, and Diderot don't usually keep company with one another. This new book - Richard Helgerson's first since the highly acclaimed Forms of Nationhood - shows that each contributed to a common project of enormous significance: the artistic promotion of the middle-class home. In a study that stretches over two centuries and four countries, Helgerson unearths the shared preoccupations of European domestic drama and painting.

The result is an unexpected prehistory of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century cult of domesticity."--BOOK JACKET.