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‘The Expiring Idea of Home': The Experience of Space and Arc
‘The Expiring Idea of Home': The Experience of Space and Architecture in Disraeli's Sybil or The Two Nations
Thesis
Methodology
New Historicism
& Gender Studies
I will argue that it is the lack of space and privacy in the workers quarters, as described by Disraeli, which prevents the Warner’s from returning to the financial success they once had. Furthermore, I will suggest that the effects of the home disrupt the patriarch. Or rather, failures in the home—as exemplified in deficiency of resources, including those of space and furnishings—serve to emasculate the male head of the household.
The history of the proletariat in England begins with the second half of the last century, with the invention of the steam-engine and of machinery for working cotton. These inventions gave rise, as is well known, to an industrial revolution, a revolution which altered the whole civil society; one, the historical importance of which is only now beginning to be recognized.
Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844
"You lament the expiring idea of Home. It would not be expiring, if it were worth retaining. The domestic principle has fulfilled its purpose." (Sybil)