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At Home in the Eighteenth Century: Interrogating Domestic Space book cover

1st Edition

At Home in the Eighteenth Century Interrogating Domestic Space

Edited By Stephen G. Hague, Karen Lipsedge Copyright 2022
378 Pages 44 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

378 Pages 44 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

378 Pages 44 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The eighteenth-century home, in terms of its structure, design, function, and furnishing, was a site of transformation – of spaces, identities, and practices. Home has myriad meanings, and although the eighteenth century in the common imagination is often associated with taking tea on polished mahogany tables, a far wider world of experience remains to be introduced. At Home in the... Read more

Introduction

Stephen G. Hague and Karen Lipsedge

Part I: The Organization and Arrangement of Space

  1. Staging Fictions for Domestic Privacy in Early Eighteenth-Century London Households

    2. Paula Humfrey

  2. Reading Pamela Through the Domestic Parlour: Rooms, Social Class, and Gender

    3. Karen Lipsedge

  3. "I will not be thus constrained": Domestic Power, Shame, and the Role of the Staircase in Richardson’s Clarissa

    4. Kristin Distel

  4. "A Small House in the Country": Cottage Dreams and Desires in the Eighteenth-Century English Imagination

    5. Julie Park

    Part II: Money, Value, and Consumption

  5. "I am now determined to inform you what I am sure will amaze you": Objects, Domestic Space, and the Economics of Gentility

    6. Stephen G. Hague

  6. Home Economics: Female Estate Managers in Long Eighteenth-Century Fiction and Society

    7. Beth Cortese

  7. Genteel, Respectable and Airy: The Lodgings Market in London, 1770-1800

    8. Gillian Williamson

  8. "Great earthly riches are no real advantage to our posterity": Space, Archaeology and the Philadelphia Home

    9. Deborah L. Miller

    Part III: Different Perspectives on Home

  9. Transatlantic Domesticity and the Limits of a Genre in A Woman of Colour

    10. Victoria Barnett-Woods

  10. Making Room: Queer Domesticity in Jane Austen’s Emma and the Anne Lister Diaries

    11. Margaret A. Miller

  11. Servants’ Furniture: Hierarchies and Identities in the English Country House

    12. Jon Stobart

  12. Making the Bed, Making the Lower-Order Home in Eighteenth-Century Scotland

Katie Barclay

13. Hierarchies of the Home: Spaces, Things, and People in the Eighteenth Century

    Laura Keim

14. Twenty-First Century Visitors in Eighteenth-Century Spaces: Challenges and Opportunities

Oliver Cox

Conclusion: Assessing Eighteenth-Century Domestic Space

Stephen G. Hague and Karen Lipsedge

Biography

Stephen G. Hague is an Associate Professor of Modern European History at Rowan University. He specializes in British and British imperial history and is the author of The Gentleman’s House in the British Atlantic World, 1680-1780 (2015). He researches and writes on the intersections of political, social, cultural, and architectural history.

Karen Lipsedge is an Associate Professor in English Literature, at Kingston University, England. Her research focuses on eighteenth-century domestic space, material culture, and society and its representation in British eighteenth-century literature and art. She is the author of Domestic Space in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel (2012) and has written and presented widely on the representation of home, the interior, and the lived experience of domestic space in eighteenth-century literature and art.

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