Brown examines the ambivalence of economically determined objects both as repositories of memory and dreams and as fetishized commodities that become detached from everyday reality. Does the bourgeois possess the interior and its objects, or do the interior and its objects possess the bourgeois?.
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English fiction -- History and criticism. Middle class in literature. Interior decoration in literature. Dwellings in literature. Middle class in art. Interior decoration in art. Dwellings in art.