Interiors in the Age of Enlightenment

Stacey Sloboda is Associate Professor of Art History and Paul H. Tucker Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA.

• Preface Introduction: The Interior in the Age of Enlightenment - Stacey Sloboda1. Beauty: Cultural Aesthetics in the Enlightenment Interior - Anne Nellis Richter2. Technology: Cultural Transfer, Imitation, and Improvement of Materials and Surfaces of the Interior - Noémie Étienne3. Designers, Professions, Trades: Conceiving and Making the Interior - Conor Lucey4. Global Movements: Exoticism and Hybridity in the Globalized Interior - Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding5. Private Spaces: Performing the Home - Mimi Hellman6. Public Spaces: Staging Ritual and Shaping Identity - Laurel O. Peterson7. Gender and Sexuality: The Desire of Decor - Michael Yonan8. The Interior in the Arts: Literary and Visual Representations - Karen Lipsedge and Melinda McCurdyBibliographyIndex

The authors deal adroitly with a range of fascinating themes – from globalisation to the body. They tell us important things about the spaces and stuff of everyday life, and crucially, about what these things meant to and did for their owners.