In Bed with the Victorians: The Life-Cycle of Working-Class Marriage
Autor Vicky Holmesen Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 oct 2017
This book examines the life-cycle of Victorian working-class marriage through a study of the hitherto hidden marital bed. Using coroners’ inquests to gain intimate access to the working-class home and its inhabitants, this book explores their marital, quasi-marital, and post-marital beds to reveal the material, domestic, and emotional experience of working-class marriage during everyday life and at times of crisis. Drawing on the recent approach of utilising domestic objects to explore interpersonal relationships, the marital bed not only provides a rereading of the experiences of the working-class wife but also brings the much maligned or simply overlooked working-class husband into the picture. Moreover, it also extends our understanding of the various marriage-like arrangements existing throughout this class. Moving through the marital life-cycle, this book provides a greater understanding of marriages from the outset, during childbirth, at times of strife and marital breakdown, and upon the death of a spouse.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9783319603896
ISBN-10: 3319603892
Pagini: 160
Ilustrații: XI, 125 p.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2017
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland
ISBN-10: 3319603892
Pagini: 160
Ilustrații: XI, 125 p.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2017
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland
Cuprins
1 Introduction: Victorian Working-Class Marriage and the Marital Bed.- 2 Beds of Newlyweds.- 3 From Marital Bed to Childbed.- 4 Marital Beds in Marital Strife.- 5 Beds after Marital Separation.- 6 Post-Marital Beds of the Bereaved.- 7 Conclusion.- Bibliography.- Index
Recenzii
“The book offers an entirely new contribution to the history of marriage with its use of new sources and its helpful attention to different phases of working-class married life.” (Helena Michie, Victorian Studies, Vol. 62 (4), 2020)
Notă biografică
Vicky Holmes is Visiting Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, UK.
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‘Vicky Holmes shows how we can understand gender and working-class married life through that most essential of objects: the bed. It allows her to write in new ways about space and inter-personal relations. This is a highly original exploration of the Victorian domestic interior which rethinks the way we study family history.’
Rohan McWilliam, Anglia Ruskin University, UK
‘Vicky Holmes takes us into that most intimate of domestic spaces, the bedroom, to peer into the marriages of working people. She shows us the marriage bed as a place to quarrel and to make up; a private space that was also, for some couples, embarrassingly public; a place of comfort for parents and children and one of sorrow; a symbol of togetherness and of loneliness. Through the records of coroners’ courts, In Bed with the Victorians offers readers a wonderful new insight into facets of life that have long remained hidden from history.’
Julie-Marie Strange, University of Manchester, UK
This book examines the life-cycle of Victorian working-class marriage through a study of the hitherto hidden marital bed. Using coroners’ inquests to gain intimate access to the working-class home and its inhabitants, this book explores their marital, quasi-marital, and post-marital beds to reveal the material, domestic, and emotional experience of working-class marriage during everyday life and at times of crisis. Drawing on the recent approach of utilising domestic objects to explore interpersonal relationships, the marital bed not only provides a rereading of the experiences of the working-class wife but also brings the much maligned or simply overlooked working-class husband into the picture. Moreover, it also extends our understanding of the various marriage-like arrangements existing throughout this class. Moving through the marital life-cycle, this book provides a greater understanding of marriages from the outset, during childbirth, at times of strife and marital breakdown, and upon the death of a spouse.Rohan McWilliam, Anglia Ruskin University, UK
‘Vicky Holmes takes us into that most intimate of domestic spaces, the bedroom, to peer into the marriages of working people. She shows us the marriage bed as a place to quarrel and to make up; a private space that was also, for some couples, embarrassingly public; a place of comfort for parents and children and one of sorrow; a symbol of togetherness and of loneliness. Through the records of coroners’ courts, In Bed with the Victorians offers readers a wonderful new insight into facets of life that have long remained hidden from history.’
Julie-Marie Strange, University of Manchester, UK
Caracteristici
Examines the hidden history of the life-cycle of the marital bed in Victorian England Utilises coroner's inquest reports to give a voice to the working classes Provides greater insight into the Victorian working class and their domestic lives