Domesticity Under Siege: Threatened Spaces of the Modern Home

ISBN-13: 9781350166110 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 224 str.

Mark Taylor; Georgina Downey; Terry Meade

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Introduction, Mark Taylor (Swinburne University, Australia), Georgina Downey (University of Adelaide, Australia) and Terry Meade (University of Brighton, UK) SECTION ONE: Microbes, Animals and Insects 1. Miasmatical Fears, Annmarie Adams (McGill University, Canada) 2. Domesticity and Fear: Insects and Creepy Crawlies, Mark Taylor (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) SECTION TWO: Human Agents – Burrowing, Hoarding, Concealing, Undermining 3. The Domestic Screen, Terry Meade (University of Brighton, UK) 4. Hoarding Disorder, Schwitters’ Merzbau and its Conflict with Domesticity, Judit Pusztaszeri (University of Brighton, UK) SECTION THREE: Wars and Disasters as Agents 5. Under Siege: The Wartime Home in British Art of the London Blitz, Georgina Downey (University of Adelaide, Australia) 6. Searching for (a) Home in the Rubble: The Heimkehrer-Flâneur in Wolfgang Staudte’s Die Mörder sind unter uns, Kai-Uwe Werbeck (University of North Carolina, USA) SECTION FOUR: Hauntings, Eeriness and the Uncanny 7. I Have Ended up Like the House, Pretending to be Myself: Uncanny Heritage House Museums, Hannah Lewi (University of Melbourne, Australia) 8. Suburban Horror Story, James F. Kerestes (Ball State University, USA)