| Comfort and Judgement: Nineteenth Century Advice Manuals and the Scripting of Australian Identity Contributor(s): Bawden, Gene (Author) |
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ISBN: 1925835480 ISBN-13: 9781925835489 Publisher: Monash University Publishing OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Australian & Oceanian - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Architecture | Buildings - Residential |
| Dewey: 728.099 |
| LCCN: 2019401822 |
| Series: Art History |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (0.70 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Oceania |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Since the earliest days of colonisation white Australians have protectively swaddled themselves in the domestic interior. Faced with a disconcerting and entirely alien environment, the replication of English interiors provided the colony's settler communities with the tether they sought to a guiding homeland and its comforting rules and practices. Though Australian identity is aligned, truthfully or otherwise, to the 'masculine' exterior: the bush, the outback and the beach, women were imperative to settler communities, and so too were the interiors they created. Comfort and Judgement provides a richer, deeper understanding of the Australian home than has been realised before. |