Stories from Home: English Domestic Interiors, 1750-1850
Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: Focusing upon homes that were created by the middle stratum of society in provincial towns, villages and rural locations, Stories from Home: English Domestic Interiors, 1750–1850 uses a methodology derived from cultural studies and qualitative analyses of documentary sources: what it describes as ‘a new method of examining the design and materiality of interiors’ (p. 2). Thus, this study seeks ‘to retrieve the narratives of domestic life contained in the material evidence of home interiors and the homemaking and consumption practices of the people who inhabited them’ (p. 1). Moreover, it aims ‘to explore how to achieve this through incomplete and fragmentary source material’ (p. 1). Stories from Home is in two parts. The first, and longer, part, which consists of five chapters, aims to examine ‘actual homes’ (p. 2), presenting the reader with ‘a picture of the lived experiences of the inhabitants’ as well as suggesting ‘ways of reading...
Source: Journal of Design History
DOI: 10.1093/jdh/epn015
Author: E. Ferry
Institutions: Kingston University London, Kingston University
Language: English
Subfield: Conservation
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2016165636