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Domestic space in Britain, 1750-1840 : materiality, sociability and emotion

Title

Domestic space in Britain, 1750-1840 : materiality, sociability and emotion / Freya Gowrley.

Author

Gowrley, Freya

Publication

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022.
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Description

xiv, 266 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.

Summary

"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in Britain, 1750-1840 employs methodologies from both art history and material culture studies to examine previously unpublished interiors, spaces, texts, images, and objects.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 eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century domestic space, establishing the materiality of the home as a crucial site for identity formation, social interaction, and emotional expression"--

Series Statement

Material culture of art and design

Uniform Title

Material culture of art and design.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Home ties -- Part One. Representation. 'My anecdotes of this social neighbourhood': the thick description of Caroline Lybbe Powys ; Publishing John Wilkes's 'Villakin': reception and reputation at Sandham Cottage -- Part Two. Movement. Material translations, biographical objects: craft(ing) narratives at A la Ronde ; 'A little temple, consecrate to friendship and the muses': romantic friendship and gift-exchange at Plas Newydd, Llangollen -- Part Three. Ownership. 'I love her as my own child': inheritance, extra-illustration and queer familial intimacies at Strawberry Hill -- Conclusion: Materializing loss

Call Number

JQE 23-205

ISBN

9781501343360
150134336X

LCCN

2021037174

OCLC

1263246619

Author

Gowrley, Freya, author.

Title

Domestic space in Britain, 1750-1840 : materiality, sociability and emotion / Freya Gowrley.

Publisher

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022.

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Material culture of art and design

Material culture of art and design.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1700-1899

Other Form:

Online version: Gowrley, Freya. Domestic space in Britain, 1750-1840 [New York] : Bloomsbury Academic, [2022] 9781501343353 (DLC) 2021037175

Research Call Number

JQE 23-205

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