‘Home is home be it never so homely’: Reading Mid-Victorian Slum Interiors
‘Home is home be it never so homely’: Reading Mid-Victorian Slum Interiors
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“家就是家，从来没有这么温馨”：阅读维多利亚中期贫民窟的室内设计
DOI：
10.1080/13555502.2013.826424
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发表时间：
2013
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0.3
通讯作者：
E. Cuming
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作者：
E. Cuming
本文认为，对贫民窟内部的再现是维多利亚中期城市研究者的复杂文化叙事，其中包括亨利·梅休、托马斯·比姆斯和乔治·戈德温。现有的许多关于19世纪贫民窟叙事的学术倾向于强调使用耸人听闻的殖民主义、夸张和比喻来描述非常贫穷的人的可怕生活条件，这一特征在19世纪80年代的作品中尤为明显。通过关注1849年至1865年期间的作品，这篇文章关注了早期对贫民窟内部的概念和预测，这些内部并不完全被认为是卑微的或其他的，而是作为矛盾的空间，既挑战并援引了维多利亚时代的家庭生活形式。通过对其文本和视觉形式的仔细阅读，我展示了贫民窟内部矛盾和矛盾的空间如何以有意义的方式重新配置家庭建筑、居民和他们的物品之间的传统关系。
This article considers representations of the ‘slum interior’ as complex cultural narratives produced by urban investigators of the mid-Victorian period, including Henry Mayhew, Thomas Beames and George Godwin. Much existing scholarship on nineteenth-century slum narratives has tended to emphasize the use of sensationalism, hyperbole and tropes of colonialism to describe the dire living conditions of the very poor, a feature particularly apparent in the works of the 1880s. By focusing on writings from the period 1849–1865, this article pays attention to earlier conceptions and projections of slum interiors which were conceived as not altogether abject or ‘other’, but as ambivalent spaces that both defied, and invoked, Victorian forms of domesticity. Through close readings of their textual and visual form, I show how the paradoxical and ambivalent spaces of the slum interior reconfigure in meaningful ways the conventional relations of domestic architecture, inhabitants and their objects.