Jane Hamlett

Material relations

Domestic interiors and middle-class families in England, 1850-1910

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Material relations tells the story of nineteenth and early twentieth century middle-class families by exploring the domestic spaces they inhabited and the material goods they prized. By opening the doors of the house, the book sheds new light on aspects of family life including love, marriage, sex, childhood and death. -- .

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Produktdetails

• Studies in Design and Material Culture
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9780719099250
• ISBN-10: 0719099250
• Artikelnr.: 42800655

Autorenporträt

Jane Hamlett is Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at Royal Holloway University of London

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Inside the middle-class home: space and the limits of the
private 2. Material marriages: creating domestic interiors, defining
marital relationships 3. "Tiresome trips downstairs": childhood experience
and the domestic interior 4. Leaving home: schools, colleges and lodgings
5. Death, memory and the reconstruction of home Epilogue: from Victorian to
Modern? Bibliography Index