Bachelors of a different sort : queer aesthetics, material culture and the modern interior in Britain / John Potvin.
- Potvin, John
- Date:
- 2014
- Books
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Publication/Creation
Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2014.
New York : Distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Physical description
xvi, 311 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-306) and index.
Contents
1. Men of a different sort: the seven deadly sins of the modern bachelor -- I. Wilde Spaces: 2.̀God Save the Queen': Lord Gower, idolatry and the cult of the bric-à-brac diva; 3. Vale(d) decadence: Charles Ricketts, Charles Shannon and the Wilde factor -- II. Country Living: 4. Askesis and the Greek ideal: Edward Perry Warren and Lewes House; 5. Of art and irises: Cedric Morris, Arthur Lett-Haines and the decorative ideal -- III. Stage Design for Living: 6. Coward in the room: interwar glamour and the performances of a queer modernity; 7. Cecil Beaton: artifice as resistance; 8. Conclusion: manifesto for a queer home of One's own.
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Subjects
- Gay menGreat BritainHistory19th century
- Gay menGreat BritainHistory20th century
- BachelorsGreat BritainHistory
- Interior decorationGreat BritainHistory19th century
- Interior decorationGreat BritainHistory20th century
- Homosexualityhistory
- Creativityhistory
- Great Britain
- Gower, Ronald Sutherland, Lord, 1845-1916Homes and haunts.
- Ricketts, Charles S., 1866-1931Homes and haunts.
- Shannon, Charles, 1863-1937Homes and haunts.
- Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900Homes and haunts.
- Taylor, Alfred Waterhouse Somerset, approximately 1852-Homes and haunts.
- Warren, Edward Perry, 1860-1928Homes and haunts.
- Morris, Cedric, 1889-1982Homes and haunts.
- Haines, Arthur Lett, 1894-1978Homes and haunts.
- Coward, Noël, 1899-1973Homes and haunts.
- Beaton, Cecil, 1904-1980Homes and haunts.
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Location Status History of MedicineTPO.U.41Open shelves
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- 9780719084997
- 0719084997