1st Edition
Aesthetic Femininity and Domestic Modernity in Late Victorian Advice Literature
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Making “Room” for Girls
1. “Our Artistic Home”: Adolescent Girls and Domestic Interiors in the Girl’s Own Paper
2. A Room of Her Own: Spatiality, Materiality, and the Girl’s Bedroom
3. The Doll’s House Beautiful: Miniature Interiors and Girls’ Space
Part Two: Framing Gentlewomen in the “House Beautiful”
4. “An Englishwoman’s House Is Her Home”: Household Furniture and Female Embodiment
5. The Cozy Corner: Portable Privacy, Mobile Intimacy, and a New Sense of Domesticity
6. “A Woman’s Nature Is Like a Great House Full of Rooms”: Celebrity Women and “Real” Interiors
Afterword
Works Cited
Index
Biography
Shu-chuan Yan is a professor in the Department of Western Languages and Literature at the National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Manchester. Her recent articles have appeared in Victorian Literature and Culture, Journal of Popular Culture, Journal of Modern Craft, Home Cultures, Interiors, Victorian Periodicals Review, Textual Practice, and Mobilities.
