Behind closed doors : at home in Georgian England / Amanda Vickery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vickery, Amanda, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role.

Households--England--History--18th century.

Households.

Social control--England--History--18th century.

Social control.

Great Britain--History--1714-1837.

Great Britain.

England--Social conditions--18th century.

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2009]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this brilliant new work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. Writing with her customary wit and verve, she introduces us to men and women from all walks of life: gentlewoman Anne Dormer in her stately Oxfordshire mansion, bachelor clerk and future novelist Anthony Trollope in his dreary London lodgings, genteel spinsters keeping up appearances in two rooms with yellow wallpaper, servants with only a locking box to call their own.Vickery makes ingenious use of upholsterer's ledgers, burglary trials, and other unusual sources to reveal the roles of house and home in economic survival, social success, and political representation during the long eighteenth century. Through the spread of formal visiting, the proliferation of affordable ornamental furnishings, the commercial celebration of feminine artistry at home, and the currency of the language of taste, even modest homes turned into arenas of social campaign and exhibition.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

1. THRESHOLDS AND BOUNDARIES AT HOME

2. MEN ALONE: HOW BACHELORS LIVED

3.SETTING UP HOME

4. HIS AND HERS: ACCOUNTING FOR THE HOUSEHOLD

5. ROOMS AT THE TOP

6. WALLPAPER AND TASTE

7. THE TRIALS OF DOMESTIC DEPENDENCE

8. A NEST OF COMFORTS: WOMEN ALONE

9. WHAT WOMEN MADE

10. A SEX IN THINGS?

CONCLUSION

NOTES

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-288).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780300188561

0300188560

OCLC:

953661082