Time, Domesticity And Print Culture In Nineteenth-century Britain (palgrave Studies In Nineteenth-century Writing And Culture)

Time, Domesticity And Print Culture In Nineteenth-century Britain (palgrave Studies In Nineteenth-century Writing And Culture)
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This innovative study shows that nineteenth-century texts gave domesticity not just a spatial but also a temporal dimension. Novels by Dickens and Gaskell, as well as periodicals, cookery books and albums, all showed domesticity as a process. Damkjær argues that texts' material form had a profound influence on their representation of domestic time.

This innovative study shows that nineteenth-century texts gave domesticity not just a spatial but also a temporal dimension. Novels by Dickens and Gaskell, as well as periodicals, cookery books and albums, all showed domesticity as a process. Damkjær argues that texts' material form had a profound influence on their representation of domestic time.

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