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This book examines the life-cycle of Victorian working-class
marriage through a study of the hitherto hidden marital bed. Using
coroners' inquests to gain intimate access to the working-class
home and its inhabitants, this book explores their marital,
quasi-marital, and post-marital beds to reveal the material,
domestic, and emotional experience of working-class marriage during
everyday life and at times of crisis. Drawing on the recent
approach of utilising domestic objects to explore interpersonal
relationships, the marital bed not only provides a rereading of the
experiences of the working-class wife but also brings the much
maligned or simply overlooked working-class husband into the
picture. Moreover, it also extends our understanding of the various
marriage-like arrangements existing throughout this class. Moving
through the marital life-cycle, this book provides a greater
understanding of marriages from the outset, during childbirth, at
times of strife and marital breakdown, and upon the death of a
spouse.
This book examines life in the homes inhabited by the working class
over the long nineteenth century. These working-class homes are
often imagined as distinctly unhomely spaces, which the inhabitants
struggled to fill with even the most basic of furniture, let alone
acquire the comforts associated with middle-class domestic space.
The concerned reformers of industrialising towns and cities painted
a picture of severe deprivation, of rooms that were both cramped
yet bare at the same time, and disease-ridden spaces from which
their subjects required rescue. It is an image which is not only
inadequate, but which also robs working-class people of their
agency in creating domestic spaces which allowed for the expression
of personal and familial feeling. Bringing together emerging
scholars who challenge these ideas and using a range of innovative
sources and approaches, this edited collection presents a new
understanding of working-class homes.
This book examines the life-cycle of Victorian working-class
marriage through a study of the hitherto hidden marital bed. Using
coroners' inquests to gain intimate access to the working-class
home and its inhabitants, this book explores their marital,
quasi-marital, and post-marital beds to reveal the material,
domestic, and emotional experience of working-class marriage during
everyday life and at times of crisis. Drawing on the recent
approach of utilising domestic objects to explore interpersonal
relationships, the marital bed not only provides a rereading of the
experiences of the working-class wife but also brings the much
maligned or simply overlooked working-class husband into the
picture. Moreover, it also extends our understanding of the various
marriage-like arrangements existing throughout this class. Moving
through the marital life-cycle, this book provides a greater
understanding of marriages from the outset, during childbirth, at
times of strife and marital breakdown, and upon the death of a
spouse.
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