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Architectures of identity: English modernism, domesticity, and imperial decline

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This thesis presents a cultural history of domestic space in England between 1910 and 1948. Against the backdrop of several social and economic shifts – imperial overextension, the end of the Pax Britannica with World War I, women’s suffrage, and Britain’s abandonment of the Gold Standard amid the Great Depression – it argues for a new appreciation of how domestic space became a critical forum in which the renegotiation and reformation of English national identity took place. Drawing on li...

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HUMS
Department:
English Faculty
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University of Oxford
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ORCID:
0000-0002-6774-9265


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Funder identifier:
http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000267
Programme:
Collaborative Doctoral Award with the National Trust


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Type of award:
DPhil
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Doctoral
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University of Oxford


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English
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2043577
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pubs:2043577
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2022-10-11
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