Behind closed doors : at home in Georgian England /

In this brilliant new work, the author unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. She introduces us to men and women from all walks of life: gentlewoman Anne Dormer in her stately Oxfordshire mansion, bachelor clerk and future novelist Anthony Trollope...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Vickery, Amanda
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2009]
Subjects:
1700-1837
Geschichte 1700-1800
Households > England > History > 18th century.
Social status > England > History > 18th century.
Sex role > England > History > 18th century.
Social control > England > History > 18th century.
Material culture > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Ménages (Statistique) > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Statut social > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Rôle selon le sexe > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Contrôle social > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Culture matérielle > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
ARCHITECTURE > Interior Design > General.
Customs and Folklore.
Households.
Material culture.
Sex role.
Social control.
Social conditions.
Social status.
Haushalt
Alltag
Dagelijks leven.
Huishoudingen.
Sociale stratificatie.
Sekserol.
Interieurkunst.
Households > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Social status > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Sex role > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Social control > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Great Britain > History > 1714-1837.
England > Social conditions > 18th century.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 1714-1837.
Angleterre > Conditions sociales > 18e siècle.
England.
Great Britain.
England
Engeland.
Great Britain > Social conditions > 18th century.
Storbritannien > historia > 1714-1837.
England > sociala förhållanden > 1700-talet.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Thresholds and boundaries at home
  • Men alone
  • Setting up home
  • His and hers
  • Rooms at the top
  • Wallpaper and taste
  • The trials of domestic dependence
  • A nest of comforts
  • What women made
  • A sex in things?

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