In Bed with the Victorians The Life-Cycle of Working-Class Marriage

In Bed with the Victorians The Life-Cycle of Working-Class Marriage / by Vicky Holmes.

‘Vicky Holmes shows how we can understand gender and working-class married life through that most essential of objects: the bed. It allows her to write in new ways about space and inter-personal relations. This is a highly original exploration of the Victorian domestic interior which rethinks the wa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Holmes, Vicky (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Great Britain—History.
Civilization—History.
Sociology.
Europe—History—1492-.
Social history.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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