The Closet: The Eighteenth-Century Architecture of Intimacy

by Danielle Bobker

Book Overview

A literary and cultural history of the intimate space of the eighteenth-century closet--and how it fired the imaginations of Pepys, Sterne, Swift, and so many other writers

Long before it was a hidden storage space or a metaphor for queer and trans shame, the closet was one of the most charged settings in English architecture. This private room provided seclusion for reading, writing, praying, dressing, and collecting--and for talking...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691241872
• ISBN13: 9780691241876
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.1" x 6.1"