The Closet : : The Eighteenth-Century Architecture of Intimacy /

The Closet : : The Eighteenth-Century Architecture of Intimacy / / Danielle Bobker.

A literary and cultural history of the intimate space of the eighteenth-century closet-and how it fired the imaginations of Pepys, Sterne, Swift, and so many other writers Long before it was a hidden storage space or a metaphor for queer and trans shame, the closet was one of the most charged settin...

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Bobker, Danielle,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 32 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Rooms for improvement
  • 1. The Way In
  • Favor
  • 2. The Duchess of York's Bathing Closet
  • Houses of office
  • 3. Lady Acheson's Privy for Two
  • Breaking and entering
  • 4. Miss C-- y's Cabinet of Curiosities
  • Moving closets
  • 5. Parson Yorick's Vis-à- vis
  • Coda: Coming Out
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix: Closets without Walls, 1550-1800
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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