Architectural identities : domesticity, literature and the Victorian middle classes / Andrea Kaston Tange.
2010
NA7328 .T36 2010 (Mapit)
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Architectural identities : domesticity, literature and the Victorian middle classes / Andrea Kaston Tange.
Author
Tange, Andrea Kaston, 1970-
ISBN
1442641134
9781442641136
9781442641136
Imprint
Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2010.
Language
English
Description
xiv, 341 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
NA7328 .T36 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
728.094209034
Summary
Architectural Identities links Victorian constructions of middle-class identity with domestic architecture. In close readings of a wide range of texts, including fiction, autobiography, housekeeping manuals, architectural guides and floor plans, Andrea Kaston Tange argues that the tensions at the root of middle-class self-definition were built into the very homes that people occupied. Individual chapters examine the essential identities associated with particular domestic spaces, such as the dining room and masculinity, the drawing room and femininity, and the nursery and childhood. Autobiographical materials by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Linley and Marion Sambourne offer useful counterpoints to the evidence assembled from fiction, demonstrating how and where members of the middle classes remodelled the boundaries of social categories to suit their particular needs. Including analyses of both canonical and lesser-known Victorian authors, Architectural Identities connects the physical construction of the home with the symbolic construction of middle-class identities.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Domestic Boundaries: The Character of Middle-Class Architecture
Redesigning Femininity: Expanding the Limits of the Drawing Room
Earthquakes in London: Passages through One Middle-Class Home
Accommodating Masculinity: Staging Manhood in the Dining Room
Boundaries in Flux: The Liminal Spaces of Middle-Class
Fictions of Family Life: Building Class Position in the Nursery
Redesigning Femininity: Expanding the Limits of the Drawing Room
Earthquakes in London: Passages through One Middle-Class Home
Accommodating Masculinity: Staging Manhood in the Dining Room
Boundaries in Flux: The Liminal Spaces of Middle-Class
Fictions of Family Life: Building Class Position in the Nursery