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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gowrley, Freya, author.

Series:

Material Culture of Art and Design

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Domestic--Great Britain.

Architecture, Domestic.

Great Britain--Social conditions--18th century.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Social conditions--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020.

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in Britain, 1750-1840 employs methodologies from both art history and material culture studies to examine previously unpublished interiors, spaces, texts, images, and objects.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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Chapter 1 'Anecdotes of this social neighbourhood': The thick description of Caroline Lybbe Powys

Chapter 2. 'So profound an adept in the fine arts': Publishing John Wilkes's 'Villakin'

Chapter 3. Biographical objects: craft(ing) narratives at A la Ronde

Chapter 4 'A little temple, consecrate to friendship and the muses': Romantic friendship and gift-exchange at Plas Newydd, Llangollen

Chapter 5 'Seat of the Hon. Mrs. Damer': inheriting Strawberry Hill

Epilogue The empty home.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501343353

1501343351

9781501343339

1501343335

9781501343346

1501343343

OCLC:

1303082156