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Domesticity under Siege : Threatened Spaces of the Modern Home by Georgina Downey (2023, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-101350166111
ISBN-139781350166110
eBay Product ID (ePID)27057265852
Product Key Features
Number of Pages224 Pages
Publication NameDomesticity under Siege : Threatened Spaces of the Modern Home
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHistory & Criticism, Interior Design / General, History / Contemporary (1945-), General
Publication Year2023
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaDesign, Architecture
AuthorGeorgina Downey
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight19.8 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2022-039592
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal728
Table Of ContentIntroduction, Mark Taylor (Swinburne University, Australia), Georgina Downey (University of Adelaide, Australia) and Terry Meade (University of Brighton, UK) SECTION ONE: Microbes, Animals and Insects 1. Miasmatical Fears, Annmarie Adams (McGill University, Canada) 2. Domesticity and Fear: Insects and Creepy Crawlies, Mark Taylor (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) SECTION TWO: Human Agents - Burrowing, Hoarding, Concealing, Undermining 3. The Domestic Screen, Terry Meade (University of Brighton, UK) 4. Hoarding Disorder, Schwitters' Merzbau and its Conflict with Domesticity, Judit Pusztaszeri (University of Brighton, UK) SECTION THREE: Wars and Disasters as Agents 5. Under Siege: The Wartime Home in British Art of the London Blitz, Georgina Downey (University of Adelaide, Australia) 6. Searching for (a) Home in the Rubble: The Heimkehrer-Fl'neur in Wolfgang Staudte's Die Mörder sind unter uns , Kai-Uwe Werbeck (University of North Carolina, USA) SECTION FOUR: Hauntings, Eeriness and the Uncanny 7. I Have Ended up Like the House, Pretending to be Myself: Uncanny Heritage House Museums , Hannah Lewi (University of Melbourne, Australia) 8. Suburban Horror Story, James F. Kerestes (Ball State University, USA)
SynopsisTheories of the domestic stemming from the 19th century have focused on the home as a refuge and place of repose for the family, a nurturing environment for children and a safe place for visitors. Under this conception, domestic space is positioned as nurturing and private, a refuge and place of retreat which gave rise to theories of 'home as haven'. While, arguably, some social conditions might suggest this is the case, Domesticity Under Siege exposes a different world, one in which the boundaries of nurturing domesticity collide with both outside and inside agents. Whether these agents are external military forces, psychological trauma or familial violence, they re-position meta-narratives of domesticity, not through identity politics or specialized subgroup experience, but relative to the actions of the world around an inhabited domain. That is, when home is constituted as a private realm, a place where individuals or groups can reside in 'safety and comfort', it is argued as a place in which the individual exercises control or power. However, there are many occasions when forces act upon the home and threaten aspects of safety and comfort, often through such things as ruination, violence, mortality, and infestation. Organised around four thematic sections, 'Microbes, Animals and Insects', 'Human Agents', Wars and Disasters as Agents' and 'Hauntings, Eeriness and the Uncanny', chapters provide a range of approaches to the home which challenge notions of 'haven' and reflect major causes that have played an important role in undermining the modern home. Examples and case studies explore the domestic screen, hoarding, hauntings, violence and imprisonment in the home, wartime interior art, the Hanover Merzbau and Wolfgang Staudte's 1946 film Die Mörder sind unter uns ('The Murderers are Among Us').
LC Classification NumberNA2543.S6
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