Exploding the Hearth
The image of the aged parent or grandparent sitting contentedly before the hearth is a canonical trope in Victorian visual culture. The freside was, at that time, a signifcant center of the home and family, and older members of the household were viewed as principal organizing forces around this ce...
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| Language: | English |
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Royal Danish Library
2015-01-01
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| Series: | Age, Culture, Humanities |
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| Online Access: | https://tidsskrift.dk/ageculturehumanities/article/view/130743 |