Machine generated contents note: 1.Inside middle-class homes: the limits of privacy -- 2.Material marriages: creating domestic interiors, defining marital relationships -- 3.The nursery and the schoolroom: children and the domestic interior -- 4.Leaving home: schools, colleges and lodgings -- 5.Death, memory and the reconstruction of home
Summary
'Material Relations' tells the story of 19th and early 20th century middle-class families by exploring the domestic spaces they inhabited and the material goods they prized. By opening the doors of the house, the book sheds new light on aspects of family life including love, marriage, sex, childhood and death
Notes
Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-258) and index