The Victorian Parlor
Author : Theodore Menten
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 45,98 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Architecture, Victorian
ISBN : 9780486231150
Author : Theodore Menten
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 45,98 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Architecture, Victorian
ISBN : 9780486231150
Author : Thad Logan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 18,3 MB
Release : 2001-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521631822
The parlour was the centre of the Victorian home and, as Thad Logan shows, the place where contemporary conflicts about domesticity and gender relations were frequently played out. In The Victorian Parlour: A Cultural Study, Logan uses an interdisciplinary approach that combines the perspectives of art history, social history and literary theory to describe and analyse the parlour as a cultural artefact. She offers a detailed investigation of specific objects in the parlour, and argues that these things articulated social meaning and could present symbolic resolutions to disturbances in the social field. The book concludes with a discussion of how representations of the parlour in literature and art reveal the pleasures and anxieties associated with Victorian domestic life.
Author : Andrew Jackson Downing
Publisher :
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 48,40 MB
Release : 1852
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN :
Author : Katherine Grier
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 38,63 MB
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1588343472
In Culture and Comfort Katherine C. Grier shows how the design and furnishings of the mid-nineteenth century parlor reflected the self-image of the Victorian middle class. Parlors provided public facades for formal occasions and represented an attempt to resolve the often opposing ideals of gentility and sincerity to which American culture aspired. The book traces the fortunes of the parlor and its upholstery from its early incarnations in “palace” hotels, railroad cars, steamships, and photographers' studios; through its mid-century heyday, when even remote frontier homes could boast “suites” of red plush sofas and chairs; to its slow, uneven metamorphosis into the more versatile living room. The author argues that even as the home increasingly was seen as a haven from industralization and commercialization, its ties to industry and commerce—in the form of more affordable, machine-made furniture and drapery—became stronger. By the 1920s the parlor's decline signaled both a blurring of the Victorian distinctions between public and private manners and the transfer of middle-class identity from the home to the automobile. Describing the deportment a parlor required, the activities it sheltered, and the marketing and manufacturing breakthroughs that made it available to all, Culture and Comfort reveals the full range of cultural messages conveyed by nineteenth-century parlor materials.
Author : Patrick Beaver
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 23,50 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780840766083
Author : GRIER KATHERINE
Publisher : Smithsonian
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 38,36 MB
Release : 1997-08-17
Category : Living rooms
ISBN : 9781560987154
"This book is about the waxing and waning of the Victorian parlor, a room whose elaborate decor and accompanying social performances seem, from the perspective of the late twentieth century, emblematic of the artifice, even phoniness, of Victorian culture. It is the story of how tens of thousands of middle-class American families devoted their financial and emotional resources to create rooms that none of them needed, strictly speaking, and that some of them seem rarely to have used."--Preface.
Author : Sarah A. Chrisman
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 32,19 MB
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781510770805
Part memoir, part micro-history, this is an exploration of the present through the lens of the past--now in paperback! We all know that the best way to study a foreign language is to go to a country where it's spoken, but can the same immersion method be applied to history? How do interactions with antique objects influence perceptions of the modern world? From Victorian beauty regimes to nineteenth-century bicycles, custard recipes to taxidermy experiments, oil lamps to an ice box, Sarah and Gabriel Chrisman decided to explore nineteenth-century culture and technologies from the inside out. Even the deepest aspects of their lives became affected, and the more immersed they became in the late Victorian era, the more aware they grew of its legacies permeating the twenty-first century. Most of us have dreamed of time travel, but what if that dream could come true? Certain universal constants remain steady for all people regardless of time or place. No matter where, when, or who we are, humans share similar passions and fears, joys and triumphs. In her first book, Victorian Secrets, Chrisman recalled the first year she spent wearing a Victorian corset 24/7. In This Victorian Life, Chrisman picks up where Secrets left off and documents her complete shift into living as though she were in the nineteenth century.
Author : Barbara Brooks Wallace
Publisher : Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 33,91 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780689716805
Sent to San Francisco to live with her beloved aunt and uncle, newly orphaned Emily expectantly enters their once-happy mansion only to find unimaginable horrors.
Author : Michael R. Turner
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 36,64 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780486270449
Features 117 gems by Longfellow, Tennyson, Browning and many lesser-known poets. "The Village Blacksmith," "Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight," "Only a Baby Small," more, often difficult to find elsewhere. Index of poets, titles, first lines.
Author : M. E. W. Sherwood
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 24,1 MB
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
This exciting work presents several sketches of the celebrated writers, painters, sculptors, models, and other impressive personalities. Anecdotes and reminiscences of Hans Christian Andersen, Thackeray, Vernet, John Gibson, Delaroche, Princess Borghese, Ivanoff, Gordon, Crawford, Thorwaldsen, and a group of equally famous people are mixed with remarkable and interesting extracts from the history of representatives of the upper classes of Italian society, or of the humble ranks from which artists secure the models for their sculptures and paintings.