Domestic space in Britain, 1750-1840 : materiality, sociability and emotion /
Gowrley, Freya,
Domestic space in Britain, 1750-1840 : materiality, sociability and emotion / Freya Gowrley. - London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022. - 272hbk.: 8 color and 27 bw illus 234 x 156 mm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of Plates
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Representation
1. 'My anecdotes of this social neighbourhood': The thick description of Caroline Lybbe Powys
2. Publishing John Wilkes's 'Villakin': Reception and Reputation at Sandham Cottage
Part II: Movement
3. Material Translations, Biographical Objects: Craft(ing) Narratives at A la Ronde
4. 'A little temple, consecrate to Friendship and the Muses': Romantic friendship and gift-exchange at Plas Newydd, Llangollen
Part III: Ownership
5. 'I love her as my own child': Inheritance, Extra-Illustration, and Queer Familial Intimacies at Strawberry Hill
Conclusion: Materialising Loss
Bibliography
Index
"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, Domestic Space in Britain, 1750-1840 employs methodologies from both art history and material culture studies to examine previously unpublished interiors, spaces, texts, images, and objects. Utilising extensive archival research; visual, material, and textual analysis; and histories of emotion, sociability, and materiality, it sheds light on the decoration and reception of a broad array of domestic spaces. In so doing, it writes a new history of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century domestic space, establishing the materiality of the home as a crucial site for identity formation, social interaction, and emotional expression"--
9781501343339 9781501343353 9781501343346
Interior decoration
Interior decoration
Domestic space
Domestic space
Material culture
Material culture--History--Great Britain--18th century.--History--Great Britain--19th century.--History--Great Britain--18th century.--History--Great Britain--19th century.--History--Great Britain--18th century.--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Great Britain--Social life and customs--18th century.
Great Britain--Social life and customs--19th century.
747.094 / GOW
Domestic space in Britain, 1750-1840 : materiality, sociability and emotion / Freya Gowrley. - London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022. - 272hbk.: 8 color and 27 bw illus 234 x 156 mm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of Plates
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Representation
1. 'My anecdotes of this social neighbourhood': The thick description of Caroline Lybbe Powys
2. Publishing John Wilkes's 'Villakin': Reception and Reputation at Sandham Cottage
Part II: Movement
3. Material Translations, Biographical Objects: Craft(ing) Narratives at A la Ronde
4. 'A little temple, consecrate to Friendship and the Muses': Romantic friendship and gift-exchange at Plas Newydd, Llangollen
Part III: Ownership
5. 'I love her as my own child': Inheritance, Extra-Illustration, and Queer Familial Intimacies at Strawberry Hill
Conclusion: Materialising Loss
Bibliography
Index
"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, Domestic Space in Britain, 1750-1840 employs methodologies from both art history and material culture studies to examine previously unpublished interiors, spaces, texts, images, and objects. Utilising extensive archival research; visual, material, and textual analysis; and histories of emotion, sociability, and materiality, it sheds light on the decoration and reception of a broad array of domestic spaces. In so doing, it writes a new history of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century domestic space, establishing the materiality of the home as a crucial site for identity formation, social interaction, and emotional expression"--
9781501343339 9781501343353 9781501343346
Interior decoration
Interior decoration
Domestic space
Domestic space
Material culture
Material culture--History--Great Britain--18th century.--History--Great Britain--19th century.--History--Great Britain--18th century.--History--Great Britain--19th century.--History--Great Britain--18th century.--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Great Britain--Social life and customs--18th century.
Great Britain--Social life and customs--19th century.
747.094 / GOW