TY  - BOOK
AU  - Martí-Balcells,Aina
TI  - Domestic architecture, literature and the sexual imaginary in Europe, 1850-1930 /Aina Marti
T2  - Nineteenth-century and neo-Victorian cultures series
SN  - 9781474463096
AV  - PN56 .D664 2022
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Architecture in literature
KW  - Sex customs in literature
KW  - Architecture, European
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Architecture and society
KW  - Europe
KW  - European literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Sex customs
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - "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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