Domestic Space in Britain, 1750-1840: Materiality, Sociability and Emotion
Freya Gowrley, "Domestic Space in Britain, 1750-1840: Materiality, Sociability and Emotion "
English | ISBN: 150134336X | 2022 | 272 pages | PDF | 127 MB
English | ISBN: 150134336X | 2022 | 272 pages | PDF | 127 MB
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,
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