Descript |
268 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
Contents |
Introduction : Culture and domestic space / Gerry Smyth and Jo Croft -- Houses, habit and memory / Joe Moran -- 'You understand what domestic architecture ought to be, you do' : finding home in The wind in the willows / Gerry Smyth -- The life of a country cottage / Karen Sayer -- Labouring at leisure : aspects of lifestyle and the rise of home improvement / Ruth McElroy -- Safe house : authenticity, nostalgia and the Irish house / Shane Alcobia-Murphy -- 'The house ... has cancer' : representations of domestic space in the poetry of Carol Ann Duffy / Mari Hughes-Edwards -- Building, dwelling, moving : Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and the reverse aesthetic / Scott Brewster -- Troubled places : domestic space in graphic novels / Jeff Adams -- Householders : community, violence and resistance in three contemporary women's texts / Peter Childs -- Sonic architecture : home hi-fi and stereo(types) / Ron Moy -- A life of longing behind the bedroom door : adolescent space and the makings of private identity / Jo Croft -- One widower's home : excavating some disturbed meanings of domestic space / Joseph Boughey. |
ISBN |
9789042019690 (pbk.) |
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9042019697 (pbk.) |
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