Bourgeois Interior.

Brown examines the ambivalence of economically determined objects both as repositories of memory and dreams and as fetishized commodities that become detached from everyday reality. Does the bourgeois possess the interior and its objects, or do the interior and its objects possess the bourgeois?.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Brown, Julia Prewitt
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	University of Virginia Press, 2012.
Subjects:	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. American fiction Dwellings in art Dwellings in literature English fiction Interior decoration in art Interior decoration in literature Middle class in art Middle class in literature Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:

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.

Bourgeois Interior.

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