The Rose She Kept : Domestic Objects from the Brower Hart Collection, 1885-1915
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Authors
Gravley, Alex
Issue Date
2013
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Thesis
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en_US
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"The Rose She Kept" studies domestic objects from the Brower
Hart house in Prescott, Arkansas within the context of their arrangement in
the home. The catalog locates the authority of homemaking with matriarch
Florence Brower Hart, and unearths the formation and performance of
identity in her aesthetic choices. The author finds a distinct attunement to
domestic objects from 1880-1915 in middle class homes in the United
States, when homemakers imbue objects with a deep meaning and power
to affect character. Historical currents of the New South, mass
commercialism, and antimodernism complicate the Victorian hold on
culture and make the home both a crucial place for individual control and
a salient expression of how an individual made sense of the tensions. From
the preservation of gendered structure to the reproduction of family
memory, Florence's objects and their placements demonstrate a concretion
of fin de sicle anxiety and budding modern order. ยท
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vii, 147 p.
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