The bourgeois interior

Brown, Julia Prewitt, 1948-

The bourgeois interior [electronic resource] / Julia Prewitt Brown. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2008. - xiv, 188 p. : ill.

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

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.


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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.


Electronic books.

PR830.M53 / B76 2008eb

820.9/355