Title Domestic architecture, literature and the sexual imaginary in Europe, 1850-1930 / Aina Marti

Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022] ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 194 pages) : illustration Series Nineteenth-century and neo-Victorian cultures series Nineteenth-century and neo-Victorian cultures. Contents 1. Adultery and the subversion of architectural prescriptiveness in Madame Bovary and The Return of the Native -- 2. Sexual accessibility and exhibitionism: Glass in La Curée -- 3. Glass dwellings and the dissolution of adultery in Fontane's L'Adultera -- 4. Domestic and sexual circulation in Huysmans' En ménage -- 5. Vienna: Towards a new domestic imaginary Summary "Uncovers the impact of architectural practices and discourses on the sexual imagination. This book sheds light on the contributions of architecture and its literary representations to a series of changes taking place in sexual culture during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in France, England, Germany and Austria. By analysing an important set of architectural discourses and literary representations of domestic architecture, the book illustrates the constant tension between an increasing sexual permissiveness and more conservative approaches to domesticity and sexuality. It shows the ways in which literature imagined the impact of new architectural designs on sexual culture that suggested the creation of more fluid forms of organisation of space and sexual mores"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Aina Marti is Associate Lecturer in Catalan Language and Culture, School of European Culture and Languages, University of Kent Print version record Subject Architecture in literature. Sex customs in literature. Architecture, European -- History -- 19th century Architecture, European -- History -- 20th century Architecture and society -- Europe -- History -- 19th century Architecture and society -- Europe -- History -- 20th century European literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism European literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Sex customs -- Europe -- History -- 19th century Sex customs -- Europe -- History -- 20th century Architecture and society Architecture, European Architecture in literature European literature Sex customs Sex customs in literature Europe Genre/Form Literary criticism Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781474463096 1474463096 9781474463102 147446310X

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