The Small House in Eighteenth-century London

The Small House in Eighteenth-century London
Title The Small House in Eighteenth-century London PDF eBook
Author Peter Guillery
Publisher Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies
Pages 351
Release 2004
Genre Architecture
ISBN 9780300102383

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London's modest eighteenth-century houses - those inhabited by artisans and labourers in the unseen parts of Georgian London - can tell us much about the culture of that period. This fascinating book examines largely forgotten small houses that survive from the eighteenth century and sheds new light on both the era's urban architecture and the lives of a culturally distinctive metropolitan population. Peter Guillery discusses how and where, by and for whom the houses were built, stressing vernacular continuity and local variability. He investigates the effects of creeping industrialisation (both on house building and on the occupants), and considers the nature of speculative suburban growth. Providing rich and evocative illustrations, he compares these houses to urban domestic architecture elsewhere, as in North America, and suggests that the eighteenth-century vernacular metropolis has enduring influence.

At Home in the Eighteenth Century

At Home in the Eighteenth Century
Title At Home in the Eighteenth Century PDF eBook
Author Stephen G. Hague
Publisher Routledge
Pages 378
Release 2021-09-16
Genre History
ISBN 1000449386

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The eighteenth-century home, in terms of its structure, design, function, and furnishing, was a site of transformation – of spaces, identities, and practices. Home has myriad meanings, and although the eighteenth century in the common imagination is often associated with taking tea on polished mahogany tables, a far wider world of experience remains to be introduced. At Home in the Eighteenth Century brings together factual and fictive texts and spaces to explore aspects of the typical Georgian home that we think we know from Jane Austen novels and extant country houses while also engaging with uncharacteristic and underappreciated aspects of the home. At the core of the volume is the claim that exploring eighteenth-century domesticity from a range of disciplinary vantage points can yield original and interesting questions, as well as reveal new answers. Contributions from the fields of literature, history, archaeology, art history, heritage studies, and material culture brings the home more sharply into focus. In this way At Home in the Eighteenth Century reveals a more nuanced and fluid concept of the eighteenth-century home and becomes a steppingstone to greater understanding of domestic space for undergraduate level and beyond.

The Little Republic

The Little Republic
Title The Little Republic PDF eBook
Author Karen Harvey
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 231
Release 2012-04-19
Genre History
ISBN 0199533849

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Reconstructs the distinctive relationship between the house and masculinity in the eighteenth century; adds a missing piece to the history of the home, uncovering the hopes and fears men had for their homes and families. Reveals how the public identity of men has always depended, to a considerable extent, upon the roles they performed within doors.

At Home in the Eighteenth Century

At Home in the Eighteenth Century
Title At Home in the Eighteenth Century PDF eBook
Author Stephen G. Hague
Publisher Routledge
Pages 366
Release 2021-09-17
Genre History
ISBN 1000449394

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The eighteenth-century home, in terms of its structure, design, function, and furnishing, was a site of transformation – of spaces, identities, and practices. Home has myriad meanings, and although the eighteenth century in the common imagination is often associated with taking tea on polished mahogany tables, a far wider world of experience remains to be introduced. At Home in the Eighteenth Century brings together factual and fictive texts and spaces to explore aspects of the typical Georgian home that we think we know from Jane Austen novels and extant country houses while also engaging with uncharacteristic and underappreciated aspects of the home. At the core of the volume is the claim that exploring eighteenth-century domesticity from a range of disciplinary vantage points can yield original and interesting questions, as well as reveal new answers. Contributions from the fields of literature, history, archaeology, art history, heritage studies, and material culture brings the home more sharply into focus. In this way At Home in the Eighteenth Century reveals a more nuanced and fluid concept of the eighteenth-century home and becomes a steppingstone to greater understanding of domestic space for undergraduate level and beyond.

The Town House in Georgian London

The Town House in Georgian London
Title The Town House in Georgian London PDF eBook
Author Rachel Stewart
Publisher Paul Mellon Centre
Pages 336
Release 2009
Genre Architecture
ISBN

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This title takes a fresh look at a familiar building type - the town house in 18th century London - and investigates the circumstances in which individuals made decisions about living in London, and particularly about their West End house.

The Single Homemaker and Material Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century

The Single Homemaker and Material Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century
Title The Single Homemaker and Material Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century PDF eBook
Author David Hussey
Publisher Routledge
Pages 253
Release 2016-03-03
Genre History
ISBN 1317016009

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The Single Homemaker and Material Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century represents a new synthesis of gender history and material culture studies. It seeks to analyse the lives and cultural expression of single men and women from 1650 to 1850 within the main focus of domestic activity, the home. Whilst there is much scholarly interest in singleness and a raft of literature on the construction and apprehension of the home, no other book has sought to bring these discrete studies together. Similarly, scholarly work has been limited in evaluating gendered consumption practices during the long eighteenth century because of an emphasis on the homes of families. Analysing the practices of single people emphasises the differences, but also amplifies the similarities, in their strategies of domestic life.

The British Country House in the Eighteenth Century

The British Country House in the Eighteenth Century
Title The British Country House in the Eighteenth Century PDF eBook
Author Christopher Christie
Publisher Manchester University Press
Pages 374
Release 2000
Genre Architecture
ISBN 9780719047251

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This work explores the British country house between 1700-1830 and looks at the lives of the noblemen and the servants who inhabited them. Reference is made to the whole of the British Isles and there is a discussion of their political significance.