Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England - Couverture rigide

Vickery, Amanda

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0300154534 ISBN 13 : 9780300154535

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Book by Vickery Amanda

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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; and, 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 18th 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.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Amanda Vickery is reader in history, Royal Holloway University of London, and the author of 'The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England', which won the Whitfield, Wolfson, and Longman-History Today prizes. She is also the co-editor, with John Styles, of 'Gender, Taste and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700-1830'.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0300154534
• ISBN 13: 9780300154535
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 400