Modernism and the architecture of private life
(2005)

Fiction

eBook

Provider: hoopla

Details

PUBLISHED
[United States] : Columbia University Press : Made available through hoopla, 2005
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource

ISBN/ISSN
9780231507875 (electronic bk.) MWT11860988, 0231507879 (electronic bk.) 11860988
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life offers a bold new assessment of the role of the domestic sphere in modernist literature, architecture, and design. Elegantly synthesizing modernist literature with architectural plans, room designs, and decorative art, Victoria Rosner's work explores the collaborations among modern British writers, interior designers, and architects in redefining the form, function, and meaning of middle-class private life. Drawing on a host of previously unexamined archival sources and works by figures such as E. M. Forster, Roger Fry, Oscar Wilde, James McNeill Whistler, and Virginia Woolf, Rosner highlights the participation of modernist literature in the creation of an experimental, embodied, and unstructured private life, which we continue to characterize as "modern."

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Additional Credits