Material Relations - Domestic Interiors and Middleclass Families in England, 18501910

Informationen zum Autor Jane Hamlett is Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at Royal Holloway University of London Klappentext Material relations tells the story of nineteenth and early twentieth century middle-class families by exploring the domestic spaces they inhabited and the material goods they prized. By opening the doors of the house, the book sheds new light on aspects of family life including love, marriage, sex, childhood and death. Zusammenfassung Material relations tells the story of nineteenth and early twentieth century middle-class families by exploring the domestic spaces they inhabited and the material goods they prized. By opening the doors of the house! the book sheds new light on aspects of family life including love! marriage! sex! childhood and death. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. Inside the middle-class home: space and the limits of the private2. Material marriages: creating domestic interiors, defining marital relationships3. "Tiresome trips downstairs": childhood experience and the domestic interior4. Leaving home: schools, colleges and lodgings5. Death, memory and the reconstruction of homeEpilogue: from Victorian to Modern?BibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Jane Hamlett
• Assisted by: Christopher Breward (Editor), Bill Sherman (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.01.2016
• EAN: 9780719099250
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9925-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Studies in Design and Material Culture; Studies in Design Mup; Studies in Design and Material Culture; Studies in Design and Material
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history