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Title: |
Comfort and Judgement |
| Sub-title: |
Nineteenth Century Advice Manuals and the Scripting of Australian Identity |
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| By (author): |
Gene Bawden |
| ISBN10-13: |
1925835480 : 9781925835489 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
234x153mm |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Weight: |
.000 Kg. |
| Published: |
Monash University Publishing - September 2019 |
| List Price: |
23.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
| Subjects: |
Australasian & Pacific history |
| â My journey to this book is the culmination of a long-held fascination with the history of Australiaâ s domestic interiors. Even as a child in a remote, desert-bound Queensland town, far from the acknowledged centres of culture, I understood the power of this interior space as a refuge from the extremities of the outside world â ¦ What could not be tamed on the outside could be subdued within a manageable framework of highly gendered domestic performance inside. As I sifted through the pages of Australiaâ s nineteenth-century advice manuals on the subjects of domestic economy and home decoration, I was struck by the continuum of the interior and its purpose: as a refuge to nurture both comfort and confidence.â Since the earliest days of colonisation white Australians have sought solace within the domestic interior. Faced with a disconcerting and entirely alien environment, the replication of English interiors provided the colonyâ s settler communities with the tether they sought to a guiding homeland and its governing rules of domestic practices. Though Australian identity is aligned, truthfully or otherwise, to the â masculineâ exterior â the bush, the outback and the beach â the â feminisedâ interior provides an alternative site of identity, potentially closer to truth than the heroic fictions of colonial frontier narratives. Comfort and Judgement provides a richer, deeper understanding of the Australian home than has been realised before. |
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