Culture & comfort: parlor making and middle-class identity, 1850-1930
"This book is about the waxing and waning of the Victorian parlor, a room whose elaborate decor and accompanying social performances seem, from the perspective of the late twentieth century, emblematic of the artifice, even phoniness, of Victorian culture. It is the story of how tens of thousands of middle-class American families devoted their financial and emotional resources to create rooms that none of them needed, strictly speaking, and that some of them seem rarely to have used."--Preface.
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- Full title :Culture & comfort : parlor making and middle-class identity, 1850-1930 / Katherine C. Grier.
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"This book is about the waxing and waning of the Victorian parlor, a room whose elaborate decor and accompanying social performances seem, from the perspective of the late twentieth century, emblematic of the artifice, even phoniness, of Victorian culture. It is the story of how tens of thousands of middle-class American families devoted their financial and emotional resources to create rooms that none of them needed, strictly speaking, and that some of them seem rarely to have used."--Preface.
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- Publication Date:1997.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Smithsonian Institution Press
- Place of Publication:Washington
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1997.
Notes
Revised and slightly condensed version of Culture & comfort. Rochester, N.Y. : Strong Museum, c1988.
The Physical Object
- Description:xii, 267 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781560987161, 9781560987154, 1560987154, 1560987162
- oclc:ocm35638755
- LC Classification:E166
- Dewey Decimal:392/.36
Table of Contents
Symbols and Sensibility -- Imagining the Parlor -- The comfortable Theater: Parlor Making in the Middle-Class Victorian household, 1850-1910 -- "Orthodox at the Hymn Book": The Rhetoric of Parlor Furnishing, 1850-1910 -- Bodily Comfort and Spring-Seat Upholstery -- The Quest for Refinement: Reconstructing the Aesthetics of Upholstery, 1850-1910 -- Parlor Suites and Lounges: Culture and Comfort in Factory-Made Seating Furniture -- Victorianism in the Modern Era: At Home in the Living Room, 1910-1930.
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