Victorian Parlour - A Cultural Study

Informationen zum Autor Thad Logan is Lecturer in English and Humanities at Rice University. She has published on the Victorian parlour in The Journal of Narrative History, The Xavier Review, and in Keeping the Victorian House (ed. Vanessa Dickerson). Zusammenfassung The parlour was the centre of the Victorian home and! as Thad Logan shows! the place where contemporary conflicts about domesticity and gender relations were played out. In The Victorian Parlour: A Cultural Study! Logan uses an interdisciplinary approach to describe and analyse the parlour as a significant cultural space. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. House and home: the parlour in context; 2. 'Sweet ordering, arrangement, and decision': decorating the parlour; 3. An empire of things: objects in the parlour; 4. 'Intimate glimpses of home': representations of the parlour; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Thad Logan, Thad (Rice University Logan, Logan Thad
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 02.11.2006
• EAN: 9780521028158
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02815-8
• Seiten: 304
• Serien: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent; Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, ART / History / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, ART / European, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, ART / Women Artists, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Art, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: general, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls