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Domestic space in Britain, 1750-1840 : materiality, sociability and emotion / Freya Gowrley.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022.Description: 272hbk.: 8 color and 27 bw illus 234 x 156 mmISBN:
  • 9781501343339
  • 9781501343353
  • 9781501343346
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Domestic space in Britain, 1750-1840DDC classification:
  • 747.094 23 GOW
Contents:
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
Summary: "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in Britain, 1750-1840 employs methodologies from both art history and material culture studies to examine previously unpublished interiors, spaces, texts, images, and objects.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"--
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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"--

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