{"product_id":"the-spectacle-of-intimacy-9780691006680","title":"The Spectacle of Intimacy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLove of home life, the intimate moments a family peacefully enjoyed in seclusion, had long been considered a hallmark of English character even before the Victorian era. This book explores how intimacy became a spectacle and how this paradox energized Victorian culture between 1835 and 1865.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2000 \"In readings that diplomatically maintain alliances among literature, politics, the law and social history, Chase and Levenson disclose a complex economy of public and private that transversed Victorian life. No separate spheres here; this is first-rate interdisciplinary scholarship.\"--Sarah Churchwell, Times Literary Supplement\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations ix  Acknowledgments xi  INTRODUCTION The Trouble with Families 3  PART ONE: The Political Theater of Domesticity  CHAPTER ONE The Trials of Caroline Norton: Poetry, Publicity, and the Prime Minister 21  CHAPTER TWO: The Young Queen and the Parliamentary Bedchamber: \"I never saw a man so frightened\" 46  PART Two: Beneath the Banner of Home t  CHAPTER THREE Sarah Stickney Ellis: The Ardent Woman and the Abject Wife 65  CHAPTER FOUR Tom's Pinch: The Sexual Serpent beside the Dickensian Fireside 86  PART THREE: Was That an Angel in the House?  CHAPTER FIVE Love after Death: The Deceased Wife's Sister Bill 105  CHAPTER SIX The Transvestite, the Bloomer, and the Nightingale 121  PART FOUR: The Architecture of Comfort and Ruin  CHAPTER SEVEN On the Parapets of Privacy: Walls of Wealth and Dispossession 143  CHAPTER EIGHT Robert Kerr: The Gentleman's House and the One-Room Solution 156  PART FIVE: The Sensations of Respectability  CHAPTER NINE The Empire of Divorce: Single Women, the Bill of 1857, and Revolt in India  CHAPTER TEN Bigamy and Modernity: The Case of Mary Elizabeth Braddon 201  EPILOGUE: Between Manual and Spectacle 215  Notes 221  Index 247","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359098339671,"sku":"9780691006680","price":73.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691006680.jpg?v=1754123577","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-spectacle-of-intimacy-9780691006680","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}