viii, 211 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
ISBNs
9780472117314, 0472117319
OCLC
ocn617524401
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: romanticism's mansion of many apartments -- Keats's magic casements and the material sublime -- The mystery of the boudoir: privacy, literacy, and the rights of woman -- Cottage industry: the ladies of Llangollen, domestic ideology, and the symbolic capital of the cottage ornée -- Sir John Soane's House-Museum and romantic nostalgia -- Afterword: romanticism's theater of the mind's eye