The Victorian Parlour: A Cultural StudyThe parlour was the centre of the Victorian home and, as Thad Logan shows, the place where contemporary conflicts about domesticity and gender relations were frequently played out. In The Victorian Parlour: A Cultural Study, Logan uses an interdisciplinary approach that combines the perspectives of art history, social history and literary theory to describe and analyse the parlour as a cultural artefact. She offers a detailed investigation of specific objects in the parlour, and argues that these things articulated social meaning and could present symbolic resolutions to disturbances in the social field. The book concludes with a discussion of how representations of the parlour in literature and art reveal the pleasures and anxieties associated with Victorian domestic life. |
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House and home the parlour in context | 2 |
Sweet ordering arrangement and decision decorating the parlour | 37 |
An empire of things objects in the parlour | 106 |
Intimate glimpses of home representations of the parlour | 203 |
Afterword | 234 |
Notes | 237 |
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Stran ix - Babel builders was well directed for this world: there are but two strong conquerors of the forgetfulness of men. Poetry and Architecture; and the latter in some sort includes the former, and is mightier in its reality: it is well to have, not only what men have thought and felt, but what their hands have handled, and their strength wrought, and their eyes beheld, all the days of their life.
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| Naslov | The Victorian Parlour: A Cultural Study Količina 30 od Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, ISSN 1747-3136 |
| Avtor | Thad Logan |
| Izdaja | ilustrirana, ponatisnjena |
| Založnik | Cambridge University Press, 2001 |
| ISBN | 0521631823, 9780521631822 |
| Dolžina | 282 strani |
| Izvozi navedbo | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |