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The Great Indoors - At Home in the Modern British House (Hardcover)
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'House' has long been synonymous with 'home': the significance of
four walls and a roof lies far deeper than simply shelter from the
elements. A house stands for sanctuary, family, belonging, privacy
and our pasts: even when standardised as a 'Barratt Home' or modern
housing estate, every house bears the stamp of the people who live
in it, remaining a bastion of quirky individualism. The Great
Indoors is the first cultural history of the family home in the
twentieth century, comparable to Rachel Hewitt's Map of a Nation or
Joe Moran's Queuing for Beginnners. As society has changed, so has
the house: the hall - which had its finest hour during the middle
ages, when families and their servants ate, slept and socialised
there together - has now been relegated to a mere passageway, only
useful for getting to other (more private) rooms. Highmore shows
how houses display the currents of class, identity and social
transformation that are displayed in the arrangement and use of the
family home. And he also offers an engaging and stimulating peek
through the curtains to explain why the fridge is used as a
communication centre, how the loo (or toilet) inspired its very own
literary genre and what your furniture arrangement reveals about
how you function as a family.
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