Architectural Identities : Domesticity, Literature and the Victorian Middle Class /

Architectural Identities links Victorian constructions of middle-class identity with domestic architecture. In close readings of a wide range of texts, including fiction, autobiography, housekeeping manuals, architectural guides and floor plans, Andrea Kaston Tange argues that the tensions at the ro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Tange, Andrea Kaston, 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2010
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Middle class.
Identity (Psychology) in architecture.
Dwellings > Social aspects.
Architecture, Domestic > Social aspects.
Architecture, Domestic, in literature.
Architecture and society.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
HOUSE & HOME > Design & Construction.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Residential.
Architecture et societe > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Habitations > Aspect social > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Architecture domestique dans la litterature.
Identite (Psychologie) en architecture > Angleterre.
Architecture and society > England > History > 19th century.
Architecture, Domestic > Social aspects > England > History > 19th century.
Middle class > England > History > 19th century.
Dwellings > Social aspects > England > History > 19th century.
Identity (Psychology) in architecture > England.
England.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Architectural Identities links Victorian constructions of middle-class identity with domestic architecture. In close readings of a wide range of texts, including fiction, autobiography, housekeeping manuals, architectural guides and floor plans, Andrea Kaston Tange argues that the tensions at the root of middle-class self-definition were built into the very homes that people occupied. Individual chapters examine the essential identities associated with particular domestic spaces, such as the dining room and masculinity, the drawing room and femininity, and the nursery and childhood. Autobiographical materials by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Linley and Marion Sambourne offer useful counterpoints to the evidence assembled from fiction, demonstrating how and where members of the middle classes remodelled the boundaries of social categories to suit their particular needs. Including analyses of both canonical and lesser-known Victorian authors, Architectural Identities connects the physical construction of the home with the symbolic construction of middle-class identities.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (336 pages): illustrations, digital file
ISBN:9781442686649

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