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The bachelor has long held an ambivalent, uncomfortable and even at times unfriendly position in society. This book carefully considers the complicated relationships between the modern queer bachelor and interior design, material culture and aesthetics in Britain between 1885 and 1957. The seven deadly sins of the modern bachelor (queerness, idolatry, askesis, decadence, the decorative, glamour and artifice) comprise a contested site and reveal in their respective ways the distinctly queer twinn
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- Author
- Christopher Breward, John Potvin, Bill Sherman
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781784991098
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- Science, Art, Design
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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