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LEADER: 02394cam a2200337 a 4500
001 2009018592
003 DLC
005 20100901123059.0
008 090522s2009 ctua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009018592
020 $a9780300154535 (cl : alk. paper)
020 $a0300154534 (cl : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn317471846
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
043 $ae-uk-en$ae-uk---
050 00 $aHQ615$b.V53 2009
082 00 $a306.810942/09033$222
100 1 $aVickery, Amanda.
245 10 $aBehind closed doors :$bat home in Georgian England /$cAmanda Vickery.
260 $aNew Haven :$bYale University Press,$cc2009.
300 $axviii, 382 p., [32] p. of plates :$bill. (some col.) ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThresholds 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?
520 $aIn 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.
650 0 $aHouseholds$zEngland$xHistory$y18th century.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$y1714-1837.
650 0 $aSocial status$zEngland$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aSex role$zEngland$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aSocial control$zEngland$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aMaterial culture$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century.
651 0 $aEngland$xSocial conditions$y18th century.