The Rose She Kept : Domestic Objects from the Brower Hart Collection, 1885-1915

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Gravley, Alex
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2013
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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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