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