Bachelors of a different sort
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Bachelors of a different sort

Queer aesthetics, material culture and the modern interior in Britain

John Potvin, Christopher Breward, Bill Sherman

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Bachelors of a different sort

Queer aesthetics, material culture and the modern interior in Britain

John Potvin, Christopher Breward, Bill Sherman

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The bachelor has long held an ambivalent, uncomfortable and even at times unfriendly position in society. This book carefully considers the complicated relationships between the modern queer bachelor and interior design, material culture and aesthetics in Britain between 1885 and 1957. The seven deadly sins of the modern bachelor (queerness, idolatry, askesis, decadence, the decorative, glamour and artifice) comprise a contested site and reveal in their respective ways the distinctly queer twinning of shame and resistance. It pays close attention to the interiors of Lord Ronald Gower, Alfred Taylor, Oscar Wilde, Charles Shannon and Charles Ricketts, Edward Perry Warren and John Marshall, Sir Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines, Noël Coward and Cecil Beaton. Richly illustrated and written in a lively and accessible manner, Bachelors of a different sort is at once theoretically ambitious and rich in its use of archival and various historical sources.

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Publisher
Manchester University Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9781526159311
Topic
History
Subtopic
Social History
Index
History

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    APA 6 Citation

    Potvin, J. (2021). Bachelors of a different sort ([edition missing]). Manchester University Press. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/2067565/bachelors-of-a-different-sort-pdf (Original work published 2021)

    Chicago Citation

    Potvin, John. (2021) 2021. Bachelors of a Different Sort. [Edition missing]. Manchester University Press. https://www.perlego.com/book/2067565/bachelors-of-a-different-sort-pdf.

    Harvard Citation

    Potvin, J. (2021) Bachelors of a different sort. [edition missing]. Manchester University Press. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/2067565/bachelors-of-a-different-sort-pdf (Accessed: 25 September 2021).

    MLA 7 Citation

    Potvin, John. Bachelors of a Different Sort. [edition missing]. Manchester University Press, 2021. Web. 25 Sept. 2021.