The Resource Behind closed doors : at home in Georgian England, Amanda Vickery
Behind closed doors : at home in Georgian England, Amanda Vickery
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The item Behind closed doors : at home in Georgian England, Amanda Vickery represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
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- Summary
- In this brilliant new work, the author unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. 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. She makes 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xviii, 382 p., [32] p. of plates
- Contents
-
- Thresholds and boundaries at home
- Men alone
- Setting up home
- His and hers
- Rooms at the top
- Wallpaper and taste
- The trials of domestic dependence
- A nest of comforts
- What women made
- A sex in things?
- Isbn
- 9780300168969
- Label
- Behind closed doors : at home in Georgian England
- Title
- Behind closed doors
- Title remainder
- at home in Georgian England
- Statement of responsibility
- Amanda Vickery
- Subject
-
- Great Britain -- History -- 1714-1837
- Households -- England -- History -- 18th century
- Material culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- England -- Social conditions -- 18th century
- Social control -- England -- History -- 18th century
- Social status -- England -- History -- 18th century
- Sex role -- England -- History -- 18th century
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In this brilliant new work, the author unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. 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. She makes 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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Vickery, Amanda
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HQ615
- LC item number
- .V53 2009
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Households
- Great Britain
- Social status
- Sex role
- Social control
- Material culture
- England
- Label
- Behind closed doors : at home in Georgian England, Amanda Vickery
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents
- Thresholds and boundaries at home -- Men alone -- Setting up home -- His and hers -- Rooms at the top -- Wallpaper and taste -- The trials of domestic dependence -- A nest of comforts -- What women made -- A sex in things?
- Control code
- ocn317471846
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- xviii, 382 p., [32] p. of plates
- Isbn
- 9780300168969
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Lccn
- 2009018592
- Other physical details
- ill. (some col.)
- Label
- Behind closed doors : at home in Georgian England, Amanda Vickery
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents
- Thresholds and boundaries at home -- Men alone -- Setting up home -- His and hers -- Rooms at the top -- Wallpaper and taste -- The trials of domestic dependence -- A nest of comforts -- What women made -- A sex in things?
- Control code
- ocn317471846
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- xviii, 382 p., [32] p. of plates
- Isbn
- 9780300168969
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Lccn
- 2009018592
- Other physical details
- ill. (some col.)
Subject
- Great Britain -- History -- 1714-1837
- Households -- England -- History -- 18th century
- Material culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- England -- Social conditions -- 18th century
- Social control -- England -- History -- 18th century
- Social status -- England -- History -- 18th century
- Sex role -- England -- History -- 18th century
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