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Domestic architecture, literature and the sexual imaginary in Europe, 1850-1930 / Aina Martí-Balcells.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martí-Balcells, Aina, author.
- Series:
- Nineteenth-century and neo-Victorian cultures.
- Nineteenth-century and neo-Victorian cultures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture in literature.
- Sex customs in literature.
- Architecture, European--History--19th century.
- Architecture, European.
- Architecture, European--History--20th century.
- Architecture and society--Europe--History--19th century.
- Architecture and society.
- Architecture and society--Europe--History--20th century.
- European literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- European literature.
- European literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Sex customs--Europe--History--19th century.
- Sex customs.
- Sex customs--Europe--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 194 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- This text sheds light on the contributions of architecture and its literary representations to a series of changes taking place in sexual culture during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in France, England, Germany and Austria.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Adultery and the Subversion of Architectural Prescriptiveness in Madame Bovary and The Return of the Native
- 2 Sexual Accessibility and Exhibitionism: Glass in La Curée
- 3 Glass Dwellings and the Dissolution of Adultery in Fontane’s L’Adultera
- 4 Domestic and Sexual Circulation in Huysmans’ En ménage
- 5 Vienna: Towards a New Domestic Imaginary
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2022.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 4, 2023).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781474463102
- 147446310X
- 9781474463096
- 1474463096
- OCLC:
- 1371574111
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