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Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life

Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life

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Series: Gender and Culture

Literary CriticismArchitecture History

ISBN10: 0231133057
ISBN13: 9780231133050
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Aug 14 2008
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.98 Depth: 8.92
Language: English
Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life offers a bold new assessment of the role of the domestic sphere in modernist literature, architecture, and design. Elegantly synthesizing modernist literature with architectural plans, room designs, and decorative art, Victoria Rosner's work explores the collaborations among modern British writers, interior designers, and architects in redefining the form, function, and meaning of middle-class private life. Drawing on a host of previously unexamined archival sources and works by figures such as E. M. Forster, Roger Fry, Oscar Wilde, James McNeill Whistler, and Virginia Woolf, Rosner highlights the participation of modernist literature in the creation of an experimental, embodied, and unstructured private life, which we continue to characterize as modern.

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