Taking a radical position counter to many previous histories and theories of the interior,
domesticity and the home, The Emergence of the Interior considers how the concept and …

The parlor was the center of the Victorian home and, as Thad Logan shows, the place where
contemporary conflicts about domesticity and gender relations were frequently played out. In …

In her immensely readable and richly documented book, Christine Bayles Kortsch asks us to
shift our understanding of late Victorian literary culture by examining its inextricable …

This volume takes forward the debate about 19th-century domestic space, drawing on
economic history and literary criticism. To date, studies of 19th-century domestic space have …

From the earliest times, people have striven to turn their houses into homes through the use
of decoration and furnishings, stimulating in turn a major commercial sector dedicated to …

Housing and Dwelling collects the best in recent scholarly and philosophical writings that
bear upon the history of domestic architecture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters Series Editor: Marilyn Gaull
This series presents original biographical, critical, and scholarly studies of literary works and …

This book offers a fresh look at the often-censured but imperfectly understood traditions of
Utilitarianism and political economy in their bearing for Victorian literature and culture. It …

The ambiguities and paradoxes of domestic violence were amplified in Victorian culture,
which emphasized the home as a woman s place of security. In The Marked Body, Kate …

The evolution of the ever-changing neuroplastic human brain is inseparably linked to its
environment. While early humans evolved in response to nature's complexity and …