At Home in the Eighteenth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook At Home in the Eighteenth Century write by Stephen G. Hague. This book was released on 2021-09-17. At Home in the Eighteenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The eighteenth-century home, in terms of its structure, design, function, and furnishing, was a site of transformation – of spaces, identities, and practices. Home has myriad meanings, and although the eighteenth century in the common imagination is often associated with taking tea on polished mahogany tables, a far wider world of experience remains to be introduced. At Home in the Eighteenth Century brings together factual and fictive texts and spaces to explore aspects of the typical Georgian home that we think we know from Jane Austen novels and extant country houses while also engaging with uncharacteristic and underappreciated aspects of the home. At the core of the volume is the claim that exploring eighteenth-century domesticity from a range of disciplinary vantage points can yield original and interesting questions, as well as reveal new answers. Contributions from the fields of literature, history, archaeology, art history, heritage studies, and material culture brings the home more sharply into focus. In this way At Home in the Eighteenth Century reveals a more nuanced and fluid concept of the eighteenth-century home and becomes a steppingstone to greater understanding of domestic space for undergraduate level and beyond.
The New Eighteenth-Century Home
The New Eighteenth-Century Home - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The New Eighteenth-Century Home write by Michèle Lalande. This book was released on 2011-05-01. The New Eighteenth-Century Home available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exploring interiors of breezy elegance, where Pop Art and industrial design mingle with patinaed highboys and carved candelabra, this book reinvents classic elements of French style, making the old new all over again.
The Social Life of Books
The Social Life of Books - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Social Life of Books write by Abigail Williams. This book was released on 2017-06-27. The Social Life of Books available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A lively survey…her research and insights make us conscious of how we, today, use books.”—John Sutherland, The New York Times Book Review Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component of domestic social life. In this fascinating and vivid history, Abigail Williams explores the ways in which shared reading shaped the lives and literary culture of the eighteenth century, offering new perspectives on how books have been used by their readers, and the part they have played in middle-class homes and families. Drawing on marginalia, letters and diaries, library catalogues, elocution manuals, subscription lists, and more, Williams offers fresh and fascinating insights into reading, performance, and the history of middle-class home life. “Williams’s charming pageant of anecdotes…conjures a world strikingly different from our own but surprisingly similar in many ways, a time when reading was on the rise and whole worlds sprang up around it.”—TheWashington Post
The New Eighteenth Century
The New Eighteenth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The New Eighteenth Century write by Felicity Nussbaum. This book was released on 1987. The New Eighteenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The New Eighteenth-Century Style
The New Eighteenth-Century Style - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The New Eighteenth-Century Style write by Michèle Lalande. This book was released on 2006-12. The New Eighteenth-Century Style available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Whoever said "Everything old is new again" could have been talking about French Pompadour Style. The flamboyant, opulent, refined aesthetic -- so characteristic of the eighteenth century -- has enjoyed a spectacular revival in recent years. In "The New Eighteenth-Century Style," journalist Michhle Lalande and photographer Gilles Trillard, both experts in the field of interior dicor, survey 30 examples of this quintessential blending of exquisite detail and ostentatious affluence. From lush velvet upholstery to the emblematic use of turquoise with gold accents, these perfectly captured interiors beguile the reader with well-worn extravagance. In an era of "shabby chic" the more refined, more pristine accents of Pompadour may be just what the world of interior dicor needs -- and this beautiful book provides an indispensable guide.
