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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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.