The bourgeois interior / Julia Prewitt Brown.
The bourgeois interior / Julia Prewitt Brown.
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Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2008.
Date
2008.
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N820.9355/27
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English
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xiv, 188 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Robinson Crusoe's cave -- Fanny's room -- Charles Dickens and the Victorian addiction to dwelling -- The smell and spell of "things" in Henry James's The spoils of Poynton -- Virginia Woolf and the passing of Victorian domesticity -- Bourgeois memory and dream in the domestic interiors of Ingmar Ber...
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Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2008.
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Virginia
Date Published
2008.
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"In a wide-ranging analysis, Julia Prewitt Brown shows that what is at issue is less the economic basis of class than the bourgeoisie's imagination of itself. The themes explored include the middle class's ever-increasing desire for more wealth, as well as Victorian women's identification with the domestic interior and the changes that took place w...
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The bourgeois interior / Julia Prewitt Brown.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-181) and index.
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N820.9355/27
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74VM4KWLJxLd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VM4KWLJxLd
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ISBN
9780813927107 (acidfree paper)
0813927102 (acid-free paper)
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820.9355
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991001376249702626
