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- catalog abstract ""This book is about the waxing and waning of the Victorian parlor, a room whose elaborate decor and accompanying social performances seem, from the perspective of the late twentieth century, emblematic of the artifice, even phoniness, of Victorian culture. It is the story of how tens of thousands of middle-class American families devoted their financial and emotional resources to create rooms that none of them needed, strictly speaking, and that some of them seem rarely to have used."--Preface.".
- catalog contributor b10314763.
- catalog contributor b10314764.
- catalog coverage "United States Social life and customs 1865-1918.".
- catalog coverage "United States Social life and customs 1918-1945.".
- catalog coverage "United States Social life and customs 19th century.".
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description ""This book is about the waxing and waning of the Victorian parlor, a room whose elaborate decor and accompanying social performances seem, from the perspective of the late twentieth century, emblematic of the artifice, even phoniness, of Victorian culture. It is the story of how tens of thousands of middle-class American families devoted their financial and emotional resources to create rooms that none of them needed, strictly speaking, and that some of them seem rarely to have used."--Preface.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Symbols and Sensibility -- Imagining the Parlor -- The comfortable Theater: Parlor Making in the Middle-Class Victorian household, 1850-1910 -- "Orthodox at the Hymn Book": The Rhetoric of Parlor Furnishing, 1850-1910 -- Bodily Comfort and Spring-Seat Upholstery -- The Quest for Refinement: Reconstructing the Aesthetics of Upholstery, 1850-1910 -- Parlor Suites and Lounges: Culture and Comfort in Factory-Made Seating Furniture -- Victorianism in the Modern Era: At Home in the Living Room, 1910-1930.".
- catalog extent "xii, 267 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Culture & comfort.".
- catalog identifier "1560987154 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "1560987162 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Culture & comfort.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Washington, DC : Smithsonian Institution Press,".
- catalog relation "Culture & comfort.".
- catalog spatial "United States Social life and customs 1865-1918.".
- catalog spatial "United States Social life and customs 1918-1945.".
- catalog spatial "United States Social life and customs 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "392/.36 20".
- catalog subject "E166 .G83 1997".
- catalog subject "Living rooms United States History.".
- catalog subject "Material culture United States.".
- catalog subject "Middle class United States History.".
- catalog subject "Upholstery United States History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Symbols and Sensibility -- Imagining the Parlor -- The comfortable Theater: Parlor Making in the Middle-Class Victorian household, 1850-1910 -- "Orthodox at the Hymn Book": The Rhetoric of Parlor Furnishing, 1850-1910 -- Bodily Comfort and Spring-Seat Upholstery -- The Quest for Refinement: Reconstructing the Aesthetics of Upholstery, 1850-1910 -- Parlor Suites and Lounges: Culture and Comfort in Factory-Made Seating Furniture -- Victorianism in the Modern Era: At Home in the Living Room, 1910-1930.".
- catalog title "Culture and comfort : parlor making and middle-class identity, 1850-1930 / Katherine C. Grier.".
- catalog type "text".