A Cultural History of the Home in the Age of Enlightenment - 9781350412248

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

A Cultural History of the Home in the Age of EnlightenmentAuthor(s): Clive Edwards\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350412248, 978-1350412248\nSynopsis\nDuring the period of the Enlightenment, the word home could refer to a specific and defined physical living space, the location of domestic life, and a concept related to ideas of roots, origins, and retreat. The transformations that the Enlightenment encouraged created the circumstances for the concept of home to change and develop in the following three ways. First to influence homemaking were the literary and cultural manifestations that included issues around attitudes to education, social order and disorder, sensibility, and sexuality. Secondly, were the roles of visual and material culture of the home that demonstrated themselves through print, portraiture, literature, objects and products, and dress and fashion. Thirdly, were the industrial and.