The Victorian Parlour - A Cultural Study

The Victorian Parlour uses an interdisciplinary approach to analyse the parlour as a cultural space.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Thad Logan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.12.2010
• EAN: 9780521631822
• ISBN: 978-0-521-63182-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 647 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain