Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life offers a bold new assessment ofthe role of the domestic sphere in modernist literature architecture anddesign. El... » 

Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life offers a bold new assessment ofthe role of the domestic sphere in modernist literature architecture anddesign. Elegantly synthesizing modernist literature with architectural plansroom designs and decorative art Victoria Rosners work explores thecollaborations among modern British writers interior designers and architectsin redefining the form function and meaning of middleclass private life.Drawing on a host of previously unexamined archival sources and works byfigures such as E. M. Forster Roger Fry Oscar Wilde James McNeill Whistlerand Virginia Woolf Rosner highlights the participation of modernist literaturein the creation of an experimental embodied and unstructured private lifewhich we continue to characterize as modern. «