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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Holmes, Vicky. In Bed with the Victorians. Cham, Switzerland : Springer Nature, 2017 (OCoLC)987282394 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Vicky Holmes |
ISBN: | 9783319603902 3319603906 |
OCLC Number: | 1006878656 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Victorian Working-Class Marriage and the Marital Bed -- Abstract -- Approaches to Marriage and the Marital Bed -- Locating the Victorian Working-Class Marital Bed -- Scope of the Present Book -- Chapter Outlines -- Chapter 2 Beds of Newlyweds -- Abstract -- â#x80;#x98;[Her Father] Slept in the Same Room as Usâ#x80;#x99;: Sleeping With the In-laws -- â#x80;#x98;We are Only Lodgersâ#x80;#x99;: Newlywed Lodgers -- â#x80;#x98;[The] Next Roomâ#x80;#x99;: Shared Homes and Bedrooms with Non-kin -- Conclusion Chapter 3 From Marital Bed to ChildbedAbstract -- â#x80;#x98;Making Arrangements for the Expected Confinementâ#x80;#x99;: The Transformation of Marital Bed to Childbed -- â#x80;#x98;In Her Confinementâ#x80;#x99;: The Wifeâ#x80;#x99;s Experience of Childbirth -- â#x80;#x98;I Called to My Husband Directly, Who Was Sleeping in the Next Roomâ#x80;#x99;: The Husbandâ#x80;#x99;s Experience of Childbirth -- â#x80;#x98;Sleeping by [Her] Sideâ#x80;#x99;: The Return of the Husband to the Marital Bed -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Marital Beds in Marital Strife -- Abstract -- â#x80;#x98;They Were Always Quarrelling Even When They Were in Bedâ#x80;#x99;: Marital Quarrels Â#x80;#x98;Rip the Feather Bed Openâ#x80;#x99;: The Marital Bed as a Tool of Abuse and Controlâ#x80;#x98;At These Times He Slept in the Shedâ#x80;#x99;: Controlling Access to the Marital Bed -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Beds After Marital Separation -- Abstract -- â#x80;#x98;Lived Together As Man and Wifeâ#x80;#x99;: Quasi-Marital Beds, Landladies, and Housekeepers -- â#x80;#x98;On a Couchâ#x80;#x99;: The Unstable Beds of Working-Class Women After Marital Breakdown -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Post-marital Beds of the Bereaved -- Abstract -- â#x80;#x98;Employed to Make His Bedâ#x80;#x99;: An Empty Space in the Marital Bed Â#x80;#x98;I Have Been Married Twiceâ#x80;#x99;: The New Marital Beds of the Bereavedâ#x80;#x98;A Stump Bedsteadâ#x80;#x99;: The Lodgersâ#x80;#x99; Beds of the Bereaved -- â#x80;#x98;[The] Little Girl, with Who the Old LadySleptâ#x80;#x99;: The Downgraded Beds of the Bereaved in the Homes of Kin -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7 Conclusion -- Abstract -- Bibliography |
Responsibility: | Vicky Holmes. |
Abstract:
This book examines the life-cycle of Victorian working-class marriage through a study of the hitherto hidden marital bed.
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"The book offers an entirely new contribution to the history of marriage with its use of new sources and its helpful attention to different phases of working-class married life." (Helena Michie, Victorian Studies, Vol. 62 (4), 2020) Read more...

