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04125aam a2200481 i 4500 001 EC5D7C681DF111EDA8BEF4A423ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220817010036 008 190823s2020 njua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019037460 020 $a 0691198233 020 $a 9780691198231 035 $a (OCoLC)1126213156 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d CHVBK $d IMD $d OCLCO $d OCL $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR448.I58 $b B63 2020 082 00 $a 820.9/357 $2 23 100 1 $a Bobker, Danielle, $e author. 245 14 $a The closet : $b the eighteenth-century architecture of intimacy / $c Danielle Bobker. 264 1 $a Princeton, New Jersey : $b Princeton University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a xvii, 269 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 520 $a "In early modern English interior design, closets provided royalty with secluded places for reading, writing, and storing valuables, as well as for nurturing the shifting alliances on which the politics of the day depended. Admission to the closet was contingent solely on the owner's approval, and the criteria for admission were necessarily opaque. Later, in the houses of nobility and, increasingly, those of the middle class, private rooms served as prayer closets, curiosity cabinets, dressing rooms, libraries, galleries, and impromptu bedrooms. Merging with the privy and the bath, they were remade as earth closets or water closets and bathing closets. In these new iterations, closets remained important spaces where physical closeness or the exchange of knowledge, or both, could take place. The Closet proposes that the closet's material proliferation had a distinctive relationship to literature. Drawing on work by Samuel Pepys, Jonathan Swift, and Laurence Sterne, among others, the author argues that eighteenth-century writers were curious about closet relations as such-including favoritism, patronage, and voyeurism-and also turned to the closet as a figurative bond between author and audience. Dozens of texts published in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were described by their writers or publishers as closets or cabinets, such as the novella "Miss C--'s Cabinet of Curiosity," containing knowledge that originated in courtly closets, prayer closets, and similar intimate spaces. The closet's longstanding associations with intimacy across social divides made it a touchstone for exploring the attachments made possible by the decline of the court, on one hand, and the proliferation of print, the first mass medium, on the other"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 245 - 257) and index. 505 0 $a Rooms for improvement: The Way In -- Favor: The Duchess of York's Bathing Closet -- Houses of office: Lady Acheson's Privy for Two -- Breaking and entering: Miss C----y's Cabinet of Curiosities -- Moving closets: Parson Yorick's Vis-aÌ-vis -- Coda: Coming Out in the Twenty-First Century. 648 7 $a 1700-1799 $2 fast 650 0 $a English literature $y 18th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Intimacy (Psychology) in literature. 650 0 $a Rooms in literature. 650 0 $a Privacy in literature. 650 0 $a Personal space in literature. 650 7 $a English literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00911989 650 7 $a Intimacy (Psychology) in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00977725 650 7 $a Personal space in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01058653 650 7 $a Privacy in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01077443 650 7 $a Rooms in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01100373 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01986215 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Critiques litteÌraires. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000001939 776 08 $i Online version: $a Bobker, Danielle, 1969- $t The closet $d Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2020. $z 9780691201542 $w (DLC) 2019037461 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117032237.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EC5D7C681DF111EDA8BEF4A423ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search