Research Catalog

Title

The bourgeois interior [electronic resource] / Julia Prewitt Brown.

Author

Brown, Julia Prewitt, 1948-

Publication

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2008.

Details

Description

1 online resource (xiv, 188 p.) : ill.

Uniform Title

Bourgeois interior (Online)

Alternative Title

Bourgeois interior (Online)

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.

Access (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

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.

LCCN

2008003089

OCLC

ssj0000755197

Author

Brown, Julia Prewitt, 1948-

Title

The bourgeois interior [electronic resource] / Julia Prewitt Brown.

Imprint

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2008.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-181) and index.

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

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