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The Cosmopolitan Interior - Liberalism and the British Home, 1870-1914 (Hardcover)
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The Cosmopolitan Interior - Liberalism and the British Home, 1870-1914 (Hardcover)
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Literature on domestic interior decoration first emerged as a
popular genre in Britain during the 1870s and 1880s, as
middle-class readers sought decorating advice from books, household
manuals, women's magazines, and professional journals. This
intriguing book examines that literature and shows how it was
influenced by the widespread liberalism of the middle class. Judith
Neiswander explains that during these years liberal
values-individuality, cosmopolitanism, scientific rationalism, the
progressive role of the elite, and the emancipation of
women-informed advice about the desirable appearance of the home.
In the period preceding the First World War, these values changed
dramatically: advice on decoration became more nationalistic in
tone and a new goal was set for the interior-"to raise the British
child by the British hearth." Neiswander traces this evolving
discourse within the context of current writing on interior
decoration, writing that is much more detached from social and
political issues of the day. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre
for Studies in British Art
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