Architectural Identities: Domesticity, Literature and the Victorian Middle Class

Andrea Kaston Tange

Published by University of Toronto Press 2010

Architectural Identities

Domesticity, Literature and the Victorian Middle Class

Andrea Kaston Tange

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442686649

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About this book

Including analyses of both canonical and lesser-known Victorian authors, Architectural Identities connects the physical construction of the home with the symbolic construction of middle-class identities.

Author / Editor information

Tange Andrea Kaston :

Andrea Kaston Tange is an associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University.

Reviews

Shale Preston:
‘Fascinating book…Architectural Identities is a book that should rightfully stand as a landmark in Victorian scholarship… In the owrds of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tange has raised a “beautiful, entire, and clean” structure. Victorians scholars may dwell here secure in the knowledge that they will attain vistas here that had hitherto been covered by abstractions.’

Elizabeth Gargano, Review19: Online Journal 2011-10-28:
‘Painstakingly researched and persuasively argued, Tange's book seamlessly interweaves diverse sources and texts. Reconfiguring the brick-and-mortar edifice of the Victorian home as a fluid site of dynamic interactions, it sheds new light on Victorian domestic space and Victorian domestic fiction as well as on the provocative and subtle interactions between them. ’

Teresa Mangum, Department of English, University of Iowa:
'Architectural Identities effectively examines the relationship between domestic ideology and household space in both theory and practice. With skilful readings, copious research, and polished prose, Andrea Kaston Tange reaches new and fascinating conclusions about domesticity, marriage, and family life in the Victorian era.'

Devoney Looser, Department of English, University of Missouri-Columbia:
'In Architectural Identities, Andrea Kaston Tange has brought together a splendid set of seemingly disparate materials related to domestic architecture in the Victorian era and shown, persuasively and with brilliant effect, how they inform each other. Beautifully written and original, this study is a pleasure to read.'

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
1 Domestic Boundaries: The Character of Middle-Class Architecture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 Redesigning Femininity: Expanding the Limits of the Drawing Room Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
3 Accommodating Masculinity: Staging Manhood in the Dining Room Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
4 Boundaries in Flux: The Liminal Spaces of Middle-Class Femininity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
5 Fictions of Family Life: Building Class Position in the Nursery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Coda: Remodelling the Architecture of Identity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	260
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 336

eBook

Published: December 31, 2010
ISBN: 9781442686649