Tune in to HGTV, visit your local bookstore's magazine section, or flip to the 'Homes' section of your weekend newspaper, and it becomes clear: domestic spaces play an immense role in our cultural consciousness. The Domestic Space Reader addresses our collective fascination with houses and homes by providing the first comprehensive survey of the concept across time, cultures, and disciplines. This pioneering anthology, which is ideal for students and general readers, features writing by key scholars, thinkers, and writers including Gaston Bachelard, Mary Douglas, Le Corbusier, Homi Bhabha, Henri Lefebvre, Mrs. Beeton, Ma Thanegi, Diana Fuss, Beatriz Colomina, and Edith Wharton. Among the many engaging topics explored are: the impact of domestic technologies on family life; the relationship between religion and the home; nomadic peoples and housing; domestic spaces in art and literature; and the history of the bedroom, the kitchen, and the bathroom. The Domestic Space Reader demonstrates how discussions of domestic spaces can help us better understand our inner lives and challenge our perceptions of life in particular times and places.
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The Domestic Space Reader demonstrates how discussions of domestic spaces can help us better understand our inner lives and challenge our perceptions of life in particular times and places.
Table of Contents Table of Illustrations Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. The Idea of Home Chapter 3. Interiors Chapter 4. House/Body/Psyche Chapter 5. Gendered Spaces Chapter 6. Home Parts Chapter 7. Liminal Spaces Chapter 8. Contested Spaces Chapter 9. Literary Spaces Bibliography
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'This anthology would be notably useful for literature students developing an interdisciplinary understanding of domestic space and for those in other disciplines considering architecture's influence on individual and cultural imaginations.' -- Dale Tracy Canadian Literature #221: Summer 2014
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780802099686
Publisert
2012-12-10
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Toronto Press
Vekt
780 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
158 mm
Dybde
31 mm
Aldersnivå
05, 06, 01, U, P, G
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
448

Biographical note

Chiara Briganti is the academic director for British Programmes of the College of Global Studies at Arcadia University and a visiting research fellow at King's College London. Kathy Mezei is a professor emeritus in the Department of Humanities at Simon Fraser University.