At Home in the Eighteenth Century

Stephen G. Hague is an Associate Professor of Modern European History at Rowan University. He specializes in British and British imperial history and is the author of The Gentleman’s House in the British Atlantic World, 1680-1780 (2015). He researches and writes on the intersections of political, social, cultural, and architectural history. Karen Lipsedge is an Associate Professor in English Literature, at Kingston University, England. Her research focuses on eighteenth-century domestic space, material culture, and society and its representation in British eighteenth-century literature and art. She is the author of Domestic Space in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel (2012) and has written and presented widely on the representation of home, the interior, and the lived experience of domestic space in eighteenth-century literature and art.

• 0. Introduction Part I: The Organization and Arrangement of Space 1. Staging Fictions for Domestic Privacy in Early Eighteenth-Century London Households 2. Reading Pamela Through the Domestic Parlour: Rooms, Social Class, and Gender 3. "I will not be thus constrained": Domestic Power, Shame, and the Role of the Staircase in Richardson’s Clarissa 4. "A Small House in the Country": Cottage Dreams and Desires in the Eighteenth-Century English Imagination Part II: Money, Value, and Consumption 5. "I am now determined to inform you what I am sure will amaze you": Objects, Domestic Space, and the Economics of Gentility 6. Home Economics: Female Estate Managers in Long Eighteenth-Century Fiction and Society 7. Genteel, Respectable and Airy: The Lodgings Market in London, 1770-1800 8. "Great earthly riches are no real advantage to our posterity": Space, Archaeology and the Philadelphia Home Part III: Different Perspectives on Home 9. Transatlantic Domesticity and the Limits of a Genre in A Woman of Colour 10. Making Room: Queer Domesticity in Jane Austen’s Emma and the Anne Lister Diaries 11. Servants’ Furniture: Hierarchies and Identities in the English Country House 12. Making the Bed, Making the Lower-Order Home in Eighteenth-Century Scotland 13. Hierarchies of the Home: Spaces, Things, and People in the Eighteenth Century 14. Twenty-First Century Visitors in Eighteenth-Century Spaces: Challenges and Opportunities 15. Conclusion: Assessing Eighteenth-Century Domestic Space