Aesthetic Femininity and Domestic Modernity in Late Victorian Advice Literature.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yan, Shu-chuan.

Series:

Routledge Research in Interior Design Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.

Summary:

Aesthetic Femininity and Domestic Modernity in Late Victorian Advice Literature considers how the domestic interior is constituted, imag(in)ed, contested, and mediated in the public forum of advice literature.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One Making "Room" for Girls

1 "Our Artistic Home": Adolescent Girls and Domestic Interiors in the Girl's Own Paper

2 A Room of Her Own: Spatiality, Materiality, and the Girl's Bedroom

3 The Doll's House Beautiful: Miniature Interiors and Girls' Space

Part Two Framing Gentlewomen in the "House Beautiful"

4 "An Englishwoman's House Is Her Home": Household Furniture and Female Embodiment

5 The Cozy Corner: Portable Privacy, Mobile Intimacy, and a New Sense of Domesticity

6 "A Woman's Nature Is Like a Great House Full of Rooms": Celebrity Women and "Real" Interiors

Afterword

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-04-044126-2

1-04-044128-9

1-003-51764-1

9781003517641

OCLC:

1545639110

Publisher Number:

CIPO000265212

CIPO000264636