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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786316703321

Autore

Brown Julia Prewitt <1948->

Titolo

The bourgeois interior [[electronic resource] /] / Julia Prewitt Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2008

ISBN

1-283-80602-9

0-8139-3428-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 p.)

Disciplina

820.9/355

Soggetti

English fiction - History and criticism

Middle class in literature

Interior decoration in literature

Dwellings in literature

Middle class in art

Interior decoration in art

Dwellings in art

American fiction - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-181) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Robinson Crusoe's cave -- Fanny's room -- Charles Dickens and the Victorian addiction to dwelling -- The smell and spell of "things" in Henry James's The spoils of Poynton -- Virginia Woolf and the passing of Victorian domesticity -- Bourgeois memory and dream in the domestic interiors of Ingmar Bergman -- Conclusion : John Updike, W.G. Sebald, and the afterlife of the bourgeoisie.