Main entry:

Tange, Andrea Kaston, 1970-

Title & Author:

Architectural identities : domesticity, literature and the Victorian middle classes / Andrea Kaston Tange.

Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2010.

Description:

xiv, 341 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Domestic Boundaries: The Character of Middle-Class Architecture -- Redesigning Femininity: Expanding the Limits of the Drawing Room -- Earthquakes in London: Passages through One Middle-Class Home -- Accommodating Masculinity: Staging Manhood in the Dining Room -- Boundaries in Flux: The Liminal Spaces of Middle-Class -- Fictions of Family Life: Building Class Position in the Nursery.

Summary:

Architectural Identities links Victorian constructions of middle-class identity with domestic architecture. In close readings of a wide range of texts, including fiction, autobiography, housekeeping manuals, architectural guides and floor plans, Andrea Kaston Tange argues that the tensions at the root of middle-class self-definition were built into the very homes that people occupied. Individual chapters examine the essential identities associated with particular domestic spaces, such as the dining room and masculinity, the drawing room and femininity, and the nursery and childhood. Autobiographical materials by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Linley and Marion Sambourne offer useful counterpoints to the evidence assembled from fiction, demonstrating how and where members of the middle classes remodelled the boundaries of social categories to suit their particular needs. Including analyses of both canonical and lesser-known Victorian authors, Architectural Iden.

Biographical note:

Andrea Kaston Tange is an associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University.

ISBN:

1442641134
9781442641136

Subject:

Architecture, Domestic, in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in architecture England.
Dwellings Social aspects England 19th century History.
Middle class England History 19th century.
Architecture, Domestic Social aspects England History 19th century.
Architecture and society England History 19th century.
Architecture domestique dans la littérature.
Identité (Psychologie) en architecture Angleterre.
Habitations Aspect social Angleterre Histoire 19e siècle.
Classes moyennes Angleterre Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture domestique Aspect social Angleterre Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture et société Angleterre Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture and society.
Architecture, Domestic Social aspects.
Dwellings Social aspects.
Identity (Psychology) in architecture.
Middle class.
Architecture domestique Dans la littérature.
Logement social Grande-Bretagne Angleterre (GB) 19e siècle.
Classes moyennes Grande-Bretagne Angleterre (GB) 19e siècle.
Architecture domestique Aspect social Grande-Bretagne Angleterre (GB) 19e siècle.
Architecture Aspect social Grande-Bretagne Angleterre (GB) 19e siècle.
Identitet (psykologi)
Medelklassen hem och bostäder historia England 1800-talet.
Bostadshus sociala aspekter historia England 1800-talet.
Arkitektur och samhälle England 1800-talet.
Arkitektur i litteraturen.
England.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 269445
Call No.: BIB 201697
Status: Available