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The bourgeois interior

Title
The bourgeois interior / Julia Prewitt Brown.
Author
Brown, Julia Prewitt, 1948-
Publication
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2008.

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Description
xiv, 188 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • English fiction > History and criticism
  • Middle class in literature
  • Interior decoration in literature
  • Dwellings in literature
  • Middle class in art
  • Interior decoration in art
  • Dwellings in art
  • American fiction > History and criticism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-181) and index.
Contents
Robinson Crusoe's cave -- Fanny's room -- Charles Dickens and the Victorian addiction to dwelling -- The smell and spell of "things" in Henry James's The spoils of Poynton -- Virginia Woolf and the passing of Victorian domesticity -- Bourgeois memory and dream in the domestic interiors of Ingmar Bergman -- Conclusion : John Updike, W.G. Sebald, and the afterlife of the bourgeoisie.
Call Number
JFD 08-2650
ISBN
  • 9780813927107 (acid-free paper)
  • 0813927102 (acid-free paper)
OCLC
191898096
Author
Brown, Julia Prewitt, 1948-
Title
The bourgeois interior / Julia Prewitt Brown.
Imprint
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2008.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-181) and index.
Research Call Number
JFD 08-2650
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