Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life

Informationen zum Autor Victoria Rosner Klappentext Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life offers a bold new assessment of the role of the domestic sphere in modernist literature! architecture! and design. Elegantly synthesizing modernist literature with architectural plans! room designs! and decorative art! Victoria Rosner's work explores the collaborations among modern British writers! interior designers! and architects in redefining the form! function! and meaning of middle-class private life. Drawing on a host of previously unexamined archival sources and works by figures such as E. M. Forster! Roger Fry! Oscar Wilde! James McNeill Whistler! and Virginia Woolf! Rosner highlights the participation of modernist literature in the creation of an experimental! embodied! and unstructured private life! which we continue to characterize as "modern." Zusammenfassung Figures such as E M Forster! Roger Fry! Oscar Wilde! James McNeill Whistler and Virginia Woolf attempted to rethink Victorian design and reconstruct the form! function! and meaning of the home to meet the demands of modernity. This study reveals the personal and aesthetic connections among modern British writers! interior designers and architects. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Kitchen Table Modernism2. Frames3. Thresholds4. Studies5. InteriorsNotesWorks CitedIndex

Product details

• Authors: Victoria Rosner, Victoria (Columbia University) Rosner, Rosner Victoria
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.07.2008
• EAN: 9780231133050
• ISBN: 978-0-231-13305-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 226 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Gender and Culture Series; Gender & Culture (Paperback); Gender and Culture Series; Gender and Culture (Paperback)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Architecture, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Language: reference & general, Literary studies: general, The arts: general topics