The Victorian Parlor
Author : Theodore Menten
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 15,83 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Architecture, Victorian
ISBN : 9780486231150
Author : Theodore Menten
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 15,83 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Architecture, Victorian
ISBN : 9780486231150
Author : Thad Logan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 26,7 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 : 38,39 MB
Release : 1852
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN :
Author : Patrick Beaver
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 45,72 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780840766083
Author : Katherine Grier
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 34,5 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 : Barbara Brooks Wallace
Publisher : Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 38,35 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 : GRIER KATHERINE
Publisher : Smithsonian
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 42,1 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 : Michael R. Turner
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 22,49 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 : Leah Price
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 11,97 MB
Release : 2012-04-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1400842182
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who reduced newspapers to fish 'n' chips wrap? Shedding new light on novels by Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontës, Trollope, and Collins, as well as the urban sociology of Henry Mayhew, Leah Price also uncovers the lives and afterlives of anonymous religious tracts and household manuals. From knickknacks to wastepaper, books mattered to the Victorians in ways that cannot be explained by their printed content alone. And whether displayed, defaced, exchanged, or discarded, printed matter participated, and still participates, in a range of transactions that stretches far beyond reading. Supplementing close readings with a sensitive reconstruction of how Victorians thought and felt about books, Price offers a new model for integrating literary theory with cultural history. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain reshapes our understanding of the interplay between words and objects in the nineteenth century and beyond.
Author : M. E. W. Sherwood
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 36,73 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.