The Closet: The Eighteenth-Century Architecture of Intimacy by Danielle Bobker
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Overview: A literary and cultural history of the intimate space of the eighteenth-century closet―and how it fired the imaginations of Pepys, Sterne, Swift, and so many other writers
Long before it was a hidden storage space or a metaphor for queer and trans shame, the closet was one of the most charged settings in English architecture. This private room provided seclusion for reading, writing, praying, dressing, and collecting―and for talking in select company. In their closets, kings and duchesses shared secrets with favorites, midwives and apothecaries dispensed remedies, and newly wealthy men and women expanded their social networks. In The Closet, Danielle Bobker presents a literary and cultural history of these sites of extrafamilial intimacy, revealing how, as they proliferated both in buildings and in books, closets also became powerful symbols of the unstable virtual intimacy of the first mass-medium of print.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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