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Stafford, William (2003) The gender of the place: building and landscapes in women-authored texts in England in the 1790s. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 13. pp. 305-318. ISSN 0080-4401
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Abstract
The paper surveys almost fifty women-authored texts of the 1790s, asking what they reveal about the gendering of space in elite houses, about the meaning of buildings and landscapes for women and about women's aesthetic preferences. They imply that elite houses had largely ungendered public, private and intermediate spaces. Castles had negative meanings for women, but not ‘olden time’ houses; there was some disapproval of exclusionary landscapes and an idealisation of country life (but not for hunting) and of rural cottages (but not rural villas). A neoclassical aesthetic was endorsed by women writers alongside sensibility and the picturesque.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | UoA 62 (History) © Cambridge University Press |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) D History General and Old World > D History (General) |
| Schools: | School of Music, Humanities and Media |
| Depositing User: | Briony Heyhoe |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Jul 2007 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Jul 2010 19:20 |
| URI: | http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/192 |
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