Domestic Architecture, Literature and the Sexual Imaginary in Europe, 1850–1930

Aina Martí-Balcells (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2024
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-6308-9 (ISBN)

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This book sheds light on the contributions of architecture and its literary representations to a series of changes taking place in sexual culture during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in France, England, Germany and Austria. By analysing an important set of architectural discourses and literary representations of domestic architecture, the book illustrates the constant tension between an increasing sexual permissiveness and more conservative approaches to domesticity and sexuality. It shows the ways in which literature imagined the impact of new architectural designs on sexual culture that suggested the creation of more fluid forms of organisation of space and sexual mores.

Aina Marti is Associate Lecturer in Catalan Language and Culture, School of European Culture and Languages, University of Kent. Her publications include The Bourgeoisies, Their Homes and Sexualities in Colette’s Claudine” in Domestic Space in France and Belgium: Art, Literature and Design (1850-1920), ed. by Claire Moran (London: Bloomsbury, 2020, forthcoming) as well as articles on the same topic.

Introduction

Chapter 1: Adultery and the Subversion of Architectural Prescriptiveness in Madame Bovary and The Return of the NativeChapter 2: Sexual Accessibility and Exhibitionism: Glass in La CuréeChapter 3: Glass Dwellings and the Dissolution of Adultery in Fontane’s L’AdulteraChapter 4: Domestic and Sexual Circulation in Huysmans’ En ménageChapter 5: Vienna: Towards a New Domestic Imaginary

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	29.07.2024
Reihe/Serie	Nineteenth-Century and Neo-Victorian Cultures
Zusatzinfo	1 black and white illustration
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-4744-6308-8 / 1474463088
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-6308-9 / 9781474463089
Zustand	Neuware