The Bourgeois Interior

by Julia Prewitt Brown

From Robinson Crusoe?s cave to Henry Selwyn?s hermitage, the domestic interior tells a story about "things" and their relation to character and identity. Beginning with a description of a typical middle-class interior in America today?noting how its contents echo interiors described in literatures of the past?Julia Prewitt Brown asks why certain features persist, despite radical changes in domestic life over the past three hundred years. The answer...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813927102
• ISBN13: 9780813927107
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher