Domestic Space in Britain 1750-1840

Between 1750 and 1840 the home took on unprecedented social and emotional significance. Focusing on the design decoration and reception of a range of elite and middling class homes from this period <i>Domestic Space in Britain 1750-1840</i> demonstrates that the material culture of domestic life was central to how this function of the home was experienced expressed and understood at this time. Examining craft production and collection gift exchange and written description inheritance and loss it carefully unpacks the material processes that made the home a focus for contemporaries' social and emotional lives.<br/><br/>The first book on its subject <i>Domestic Space in Britain 1750-1840</i> employs methodologies from both art history and material culture studies to examine previously unpublished interiors spaces texts images and objects. Utilising extensive archival research; visual material and textual analysis; and histories of emotion sociability and materiality it sheds light on the decoration and reception of a broad array of domestic spaces. In so doing it writes a new history of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century domestic space establishing the materiality of the home as a crucial site for identity formation social interaction and emotional expression.