LEADER 04788nam 2200829Ia 450 001 9910780815403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-30384-8 010 $a9786612303845 010 $a1-4008-3112-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400831128 035 $a(CKB)2550000000000664 035 $a(EBL)475842 035 $a(OCoLC)496275791 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000343140 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11280690 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000343140 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10305812 035 $a(PQKB)11588051 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36425 035 $a(DE-B1597)446194 035 $a(OCoLC)1054869538 035 $a(OCoLC)979757918 035 $a(OCoLC)984688336 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400831128 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL475842 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10333506 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL230384 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC475842 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000000664 100 $a19991115d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe spectacle of intimacy$b[electronic resource] $ea public life for the Victorian family /$fKaren Chase and Michael Levenson 205 $aCore Textbook 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2000 215 $a1 online resource (263 p.) 225 1 $aLiterature in history 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-00668-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tILLUSTRATIONS --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tIntroduction: The Trouble with Families --$tPART ONE: The Political Theater of Domesticity --$tPART TWO: Beneath the Banner of Home --$tPART THREE: Was That an Angel in the House? --$tPART FOUR: The Architecture of Comfort and Ruin --$tPART FIVE: The Sensations of Respectability --$tEPILOGUE: Between Manual and Spectacle --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aLove of home life, the intimate moments a family peacefully enjoyed in seclusion, had long been considered a hallmark of English character even before the Victorian era. But the Victorians attached unprecedented importance to domesticity, romanticizing the family in every medium from novels to government reports, to the point where actual families felt anxious and the public developed a fierce appetite for scandal. Here Karen Chase and Michael Levenson explore how intimacy became a spectacle and how this paradox energized Victorian culture between 1835 and 1865. They tell a story of a society continually perfecting the forms of private pleasure and yet forever finding its secrets exposed to view. The friction between the two conditions sparks insightful discussions of authority and sentiment, empire and middle-class politics. The book recovers neglected episodes of this mid-century drama: the adultery trial of Caroline Norton and the Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne; the Bedchamber Crisis of the young Queen Victoria; the Bloomer craze of the 1850's; and Robert Kerr's influential treatise, celebrating the ideal of the English Gentleman's House. The literary representation of household life--in Dickens, Tennyson, Ellis, and Oliphant, among others--is placed in relation to such public spectacles as the Deceased Wife's Sister Bill of 1848, the controversy over divorce in the years 1854-1857, and the triumphant return of Florence Nightingale from the Crimea. These colorful incidents create a telling new portrait of Victorian family life, one that demands a fundamental rethinking of the relation between public and private spheres. 410 0$aLiterature in history (Princeton, N.J.) 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aHome in literature 606 $aLiterature and history$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aPublic opinion$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aPrivacy$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aFamilies$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aFamilies in literature 607 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$yVictoria, 1837-1901 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aHome in literature. 615 0$aLiterature and history$xHistory 615 0$aPublic opinion$xHistory 615 0$aPrivacy$xHistory 615 0$aFamilies$xHistory 615 0$aFamilies in literature. 676 $a941.081 700 $aChase$b Karen$f1952-$01560031 701 $aLevenson$b Michael H$g(Michael Harry),$f1951-$0223820 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780815403321 996 $aThe spectacle of intimacy$93825667 997 $aUNINA