Isbn: 9783319868523 - in bed with the victorians: the life-cycle of working-class marriage (5 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 125 pages. 8.27x5.83x0.32 inches. In Stock.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. In Bed with the Victorians | The Life-Cycle of Working-Class Marriage | Vicky Holmes | Taschenbuch | xi | Englisch | 2018 | Birkhäuser | EAN 9783319868523 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu. …