Awards

• Winner of Historians of British Art book prize for a single-author work relating to a period after 1800 2016 (UK)
• Winner of Historians of British Art Book Prize: Best Single-Authored Book on a Pre-1800 Subject 2016
• Winner of Historians of British Art Book Prize: Best Single-Authored Book on a Pre-1800 Subject 2016.

Overview

The bachelor has long held an ambivalent, uncomfortable and even at times unfriendly position in society. This book carefully considers the complicated relationships between the modern queer bachelor and interior design, material culture and aesthetics in Britain between 1885 and 1957. The seven deadly sins of the modern bachelor (queerness, idolatry, askesis, decadence, the decorative, glamour and artifice) comprise a contested site and reveal in their respective ways the distinctly queer twinning of shame and resistance. It pays close attention to the interiors of Lord Ronald Gower, Alfred Taylor, Oscar Wilde, Charles Shannon and Charles Ricketts, Edward Perry Warren and John Marshall, Sir Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines, Noel Coward and Cecil Beaton. Richly illustrated and written in a lively and accessible manner, Bachelors of a different sort is at once theoretically ambitious and rich in its use of archival and various historical sources. -- .

Full Product Details

Author:   John Potvin ,  Christopher Breward ,  Bill Sherman ,  Rebecca Mortimer
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.526kg
ISBN:  

9781784991098

ISBN 10:   1784991090
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   22 December 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1. Men of a different sort: the seven deadly sins of the modern bachelor Part I: Wilde spaces 2. ‘God save the Queen’: Lord Gower, idolatry and the cult of the bric-à-brac diva 3. Vale(d) decadence: Charles Ricketts, Charles Shannon and the Wilde factor Part II: Country living 4. Askesis and the Greek Ideal: Edward Perry Warren and Lewes House 5. Of art and irises: Cedric Morris, Arthur Lett-Haines and the decorative ideal Part III: Stage design for living 6. Coward in the room: interwar glamour and the performances of a queer modernity 7. Cecil Beaton: artifice as resistance 8. Conclusion: manifesto for a queer home of one’s own Bibliography Index -- .

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John Potvin is Director of the Humanities PhD Program and Associate Professor in Art History at Concordia University

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