#4392. Spatiality and materiality: the girl’s bedroom in fin-de-si?cle advice literature

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Abstract:
This essay examines late nineteenth-century advice literature, such as the magazines for young adults, domestic advice manuals, and home decoration books, to determine how guidelines about the spatial and material construction of a girl’s bedroom supported the idea of teen femininity in fin-de-siecle (the end of century). These primary sources of information, boosted by the rise of household art, offered an effective means of understanding adolescent girls’ relationships to the modern interior. Fin-de-siecle advice literature, a mixture of facts and fancies, frequently illuminated the tasteful design of a room of one’s own as a socially aspirational model to help female adolescents reach the ideal and practical perfection of girlhood. Bedroom decor constituted a type of visual vocabulary that demonstrated a young girl’s sense of spatiality and materiality along the lines of upholstered refinement and artistic display. In a broader sense, the spatial configuration of a bedroom provided scope for a girl’s orientation toward artistic furnishing.
Keywords:
adolescent girls; advice literature; bedroom space; materiality; spatiality

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