Domestic Space in Britain, 1750-1840 - Materiality, Sociability and Emotion

Between 1750 and 1840, the home took on unprecedented social and emotional significance. Focusing on the design, decoration, and reception of a range of elite and middling class homes from this period, Domestic Space in Britain, 1750-1840 demonstrates that the material culture of domestic life was central to how this function of the home was experienced, expressed, and understood at this time. Examining craft production and collection, gift exchange and written description, inheritance and loss, it carefully unpacks the material processes that made the home a focus for contemporaries'' social and emotional lives.The first book on its subject, Domestic Space in Britain, 1750-1840 employs methodologies from both art history and material culture studies to examine previously unpublished interiors, spaces, texts, images, and objects. Utilising extensive archival research; visual, material, and textual analysis; and histories of emotion, sociability, and materiality, it sheds light on the decoration and reception of a broad array of domestic spaces. In so doing, it writes a new history of late 18th- and early 19th-century domestic space, establishing the materiality of the home as a crucial site for identity formation, social interaction, and emotional expression.>

About the author

Freya Gowrley is Lecturer in History of Art and Liberal Arts at the University of Bristol, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Freya Gowrley
• Assisted by: Michael Yonan (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2024
• EAN: 9781350437364
• ISBN: 978-1-350-43736-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 232 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Material Culture of Art and De; Material Culture of Art and Design
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; European History, ART / History / General, Decorative arts, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), DESIGN / Decorative Arts, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1500 onwards to present day, History of Art, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Architecture: residential and domestic buildings, Art forms, Early 19th century c 1800 to c 1850, The Arts: art forms, c 1750 to c 1759