In Bed with the Victorians (eBook)

The Life-Cycle of Working-Class Marriage

Vicky Holmes (Autor)

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2017 | 1st ed. 2017
XI, 125 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-60390-2 (ISBN)

Infos

This book examines the life-cycle of Victorian working-class marriage through a study of the hitherto hidden marital bed. Using coroners' inquests to gain intimate access to the working-class home and its inhabitants, this book explores their marital, quasi-marital, and post-marital beds to reveal the material, domestic, and emotional experience of working-class marriage during everyday life and at times of crisis. Drawing on the recent approach of utilising domestic objects to explore interpersonal relationships, the marital bed not only provides a rereading of the experiences of the working-class wife but also brings the much maligned or simply overlooked working-class husband into the picture. Moreover, it also extends our understanding of the various marriage-like arrangements existing throughout this class. Moving through the marital life-cycle, this book provides a greater understanding of marriages from the outset, during childbirth, at times of strife and marital breakdown, and upon the death of a spouse.

Vicky Holmes is Visiting Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, UK.

Inhalt

1 Introduction: Victorian Working-Class Marriage and the Marital Bed.- 2 Beds of Newlyweds.- 3 From Marital Bed to Childbed.- 4 Marital Beds in Marital Strife.- 5 Beds after Marital Separation.- 6 Post-Marital Beds of the Bereaved.- 7 Conclusion.- Bibliography.- Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.10.2017
• Zusatzinfo: XI, 125 p.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: domesticity • Long Nineteenth Century • material culture • Nocturnal history • Spatial history
• ISBN-10: 3-319-60390-6 / 3319603906
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-60390-2 / 9783319603902