| Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life Contributor(s): Rosner, Victoria (Author) |
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ISBN: 0231133057 ISBN-13: 9780231133050 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $31.68 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2008 Annotation: Intellectuals Such as E. M. Forster, Roger Fry, Oscar Wilde, James McNeill Whistler, and Virginia Woolf attempted to rethink Victorian design and reconstruct the form, function, and meaning of the home to meet the demands of modernity. In this study, Rosner reveals the many personal and aesthetic connections among modern British writers, interior designers, and architects. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Architecture | History - Contemporary (1945 -) - Literary Criticism | Feminist |
| Dewey: 823.910 |
| Series: Gender and Culture (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 5.98" W x 8.92" (0.71 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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." |