Domestic space : reading the nineteenth-century interior /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Floyd, Janet, Bryden, Inga, 1966-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; 1999.
Subjects:	Families > Great Britain > History > 19th century > Congresses. Families > United States > History > 19th century > Congresses. Households > Great Britain > History > 19th century > Congresses. Households > United States > History > 19th century > Congresses. Interior architecture > Great Britain > History > 19th century > Congresses. Interior architecture > United States > History > 19th century > Congresses. Family > History > 19th century. Households > History > 19th century.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Inga Bryden & Janet Floyd
What a rag rug means / Carolyn Steedman
Bodies and mirrors : the childhood interiors of Ruskin, Pater and Stevenson / Ann C. Colley
Political pincushions : decorating the abolitionist interior 1787-1865 / Lynne Walker & Vron Ware
Refracting the gaselier : understanding Victorian responses to domestic gas lighting / Sarah Milan
Tranquil havens? : critiquing the idea of home as the middle-class sanctuary / Moira Donald
District visiting and the constitution of domestic space in the mid-nineteenth century / Martin Hewitt
Gendered space : housing, privacy and domesticity in the nineteenth-century United States / S.J. Kleinberg
Theatre and the private sphere in the fiction of Louisa May Alcott / Alan Louis Ackerman, Jr.
The architecture of manners : Henry James, Edith Wharton and The Mount / Sarah Luria.