Directions in Cultural History

<p>Domestic advice literature is rich in information about design, ideals of domesticity, consumption and issues of identity, yet this literature remains a relatively neglected resource in comparison with magazines and film. </p><p>Design at Home brings together etiquette, homemaking and home decoration advice as sources in the first systematic demonstration of the historical value of domestic advice literature as a genre of word and image, and a discourse of dominance. This book traces a transatlantic domestic dialogue between the UK and the US as the chapters explore issues of design, domesticity, consumption, social interaction and identity markers including class, gender and age.</p><p>Areas covered include:</p><p>• the use of domestic advice by historians</p><p>• relationships between advice, housing and the middle class</p><p>• links between advice and gender</p><p>• advice and the teenage consumer</p><p>Design at Home is essential reading for students and scholars of cultural and social history, design history, and cultural studies.</p>