Intimate interiors : sex, politics, and material culture in the eighteenth-century bedroom and boudoir / edited by Tara Zanardi and Christopher M.S. Johns.
"Virginian Luxuries" at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello / Maurie McInnis. 11. Power, Authority, Agency, Privacy. 1. Sex, Lies, and Books: Staging Identity in the Comte d'Artois's cabinet turc / Ashley Bruckbauer ; 2. Enlightenment Naples Imagines Imperial China: Queen Maria Amalia's Chinoiserie Boudoir / Christopher M.S. Johns ; 3. Who Let the Dogs In?: The Hundezimmer in the Amalienburg Palace / Christina K. Lindeman ; 4. Material Temptations: Isabel de Farnesio and the Politics of the Bedroom / Tara Zanardi -- Part Two. Staging Identity and Performing Sociability. 5. A Stage for Wealth and Power in Eighteenth-Century Lima: The Estrado of Doña Rosa Juliana Sánchez de Tagle, First Marchioness of Torre Tagle / Jorge F. Rivas Pérez ; 6. An Artist's Bedrooms: Angelica Kauffman in London and Rome / Wendy Wassyng Roworth ; 7. The Mask in the Dressing Room: Cosmetic Discourses and the Masquerade Toilet in Georgian Print Culture / Sandra Gómez Todó -- Part Three. Hidden Lives and Interiority. 8. Mythologies of the Boudoir: Jacques-Louis David's The Loves of Paris and Helen / Dorothy Johnson ; 9. Political Interiority and Spatial Seclusion in West African Royal Sleeping Rooms / Katherine Calvin ; 10. On the Wings of Perfumed Reverie: Multisensory Construction of Elsewhere and Elite Female Autonomy in Marie Antoinette's boudoir turc / Hyejin Lee ; 11. "Virginian Luxuries" at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello / Maurie McInnis.
Summary:
"A desire for intimacy in domestic spaces - motivated by a growing sense of individualistic expression, an incentive to conceal the labor or enslavement taking place, and an appetite for solace and comfort - led to interiors taking on more specific roles in the eighteenth century. By examining the architectural, visual, and material culture of eighteenth-century spaces, Intimate Interiors foregrounds the interrelated concepts of intimacy, privacy, informality, and sociability in order to show how these ideas played an increasingly integral role in the period's architectural and material design. Across eleven innovative chapters that explore issues of gender, politics, travel, exoticism, imperialism, sensorial experiences, identity, interiority, and modernity, this volume demonstrates how intimacy was a fundamental goal in the planning of private quarters. In doing so, the political nature of private spaces is uncovered, whilst highlighting the contradictions and complexities of these highly performative "private" interiors. Employing distinct methodological perspectives across various geographical sites, from Turkey to Versailles, Britain to Benin, Intimate Interiors draws as-yet untraced connections between Enlightenment Europe, imperial outposts, and major metropolitan centers across the globe"-- Page 4 of cover.
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