Domestic architecture, literature and the sexual imaginary in Europe, 1850-1930 /Aina Marti.
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2022.
- 1 online resource (vi, 194 pages) : illustration.
- Nineteenth-century and neo-Victorian cultures series .
Includes bibliographies and index.
1. Adultery and the subversion of architectural prescriptiveness in Madame Bovary and The Return of the Native -- 2. Sexual accessibility and exhibitionism: Glass in La Curée -- 3. Glass dwellings and the dissolution of adultery in Fontane's L'Adultera -- 4. Domestic and sexual circulation in Huysmans' En ménage -- 5. Vienna: Towards a new domestic imaginary.
"Uncovers the impact of architectural practices and discourses on the sexual imagination. This book sheds light on the contributions of architecture and its literary representations to a series of changes taking place in sexual culture during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in France, England, Germany and Austria. By analysing an important set of architectural discourses and literary representations of domestic architecture, the book illustrates the constant tension between an increasing sexual permissiveness and more conservative approaches to domesticity and sexuality. It shows the ways in which literature imagined the impact of new architectural designs on sexual culture that suggested the creation of more fluid forms of organisation of space and sexual mores"--
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Architecture in literature. Sex customs in literature. Architecture, European--History--19th century. Architecture, European--History--20th century. Architecture and society--History--Europe--19th century. Architecture and society--History--Europe--20th century. European literature--History and criticism.--19th century European literature--History and criticism.--20th century Sex customs--History--Europe--19th century. Sex customs--History--Europe--20th century.