TY - BOOK ID - 67947282 TI - The cosmopolitan interior : liberalism and the British home, 1870-1914. PY - 2008 SN - 9780300124903 PB - New Haven Yale university press DB - UniCat KW - Interior decoration KW - Liberalism KW - Social aspects KW - History KW - 747 <41> "18" KW - Decoration, Interior KW - Home decoration KW - House decoration KW - Interior design KW - Art KW - Buildings KW - Decoration and ornament KW - Home economics KW - Furniture KW - House furnishings KW - Upholstery KW - Liberal egalitarianism KW - Liberty KW - Political science KW - Social sciences KW - 747 <41> "18" Interieurkunst. Binnenhuisarchitectuur--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittanniƫ en Noord-Ierland--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 KW - Interieurkunst. Binnenhuisarchitectuur--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittanniƫ en Noord-Ierland--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 KW - Environmental engineering UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:67947282 AB - Literature on domestic interior decoration first emerged as a popular genre in Britain during the 1870s and 1880s, as middle-class readers sought decorating advice from books, household manuals, women's magazines, and professional journals. This intriguing book examines that literature and shows how it was influenced by the widespread liberalism of the middle class. Judith Neiswander explains that during these years liberal values - namely, individuality, cosmopolitanism, scientific rationalism, the progressive role of the elite, and the emancipation of women - informed advice about the desirable appearance of the home. In the period preceding the First World War, these values changed dramatically: advice on decoration became more nationalistic in tone and a new goal was set for the interior: "to raise the British child by the British hearth". Neiswander traces this evolving discourse within the context of current writing on interior decoration, writing that is much more detached from social and political issues of the day. ER -