| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 219 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Gender and culture |
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Gender and culture.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Kitchen table modernism -- 2. Frames -- 3. Thresholds -- 4. Studies |
| Summary |
Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life offers a bold new assessment of the role of the domestic sphere in modernist literature, architecture, and design. Elegantly synthesizing modernist literature with architectural plans, room designs, and decorative art, Victoria Rosner's work explores the collaborations among modern British writers, interior designers, and architects in redefining the form, function, and meaning of middle-class private life. Drawing on a host of previously unexamined archival sources and works by figures such as E.M. Forster, Roger Fry, Oscar Wilde, James McN |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-210) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Knowledge -- Architecture
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| SUBJECT |
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 fast |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Architecture, Domestic, in literature.
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Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain
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Space (Architecture) in literature.
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Personal space in literature.
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Dwellings in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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Privacy in literature.
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Home in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Architecture
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Architecture, Domestic, in literature
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Dwellings in literature
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English fiction
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Home in literature
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Modernism (Literature)
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Personal space in literature
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Privacy in literature
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Sex role in literature
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Space (Architecture) in literature
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2004058289 |
| ISBN |
0231507879 |
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9780231507875 |
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