Domestic Architecture, Literature and the Sexual Imaginary in Europe, 1850-1930 / / Aina Marti.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• VerfasserIn: Marti, Aina,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Nineteenth-Century and Neo-Victorian Cultures
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.) :; 1 B/W illustrations 1 black and white illustration

Uncovers the impact of architectural practices and discourses on the sexual imaginationIncludes unpublished sources from German, French and English architectural archivesSets out new approaches to architectural theory and the uses of literature›/li›Establishes a link between the Architectural Humanities and the History of SexualityDiscovers the powerful role of architecture in suggesting sexual practicesThis 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index