The Victorian Parlour: A Cultural StudyThe parlor was the center 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 analyze the parlor as a highly significant cultural space. The book concludes with a discussion of how representations of the parlor in literature and art reveal the pleasures and anxieties associated with Victorian domestic life. |
Contents
House and home the parlour in context | 2 |
Sweet ordering arrangement and decision decorating the parlour | 37 |
An empire of things objects in the parlour | 106 |
Intimate glimpses of home representations of the parlour | 203 |
Afterword | 234 |
Notes | 237 |
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Page ix - Babel builders was well directed for this world: there are but two strong conquerors of the forgetfulness of men. Poetry and Architecture; and the latter in some sort includes the former, and is mightier in its reality: it is well to have, not only what men have thought and felt, but what their hands have handled, and their strength wrought, and their eyes beheld, all the days of their life.