{"id":4639,"date":"2024-05-07T11:26:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T17:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ior-2020\/?page_id=4639"},"modified":"2024-05-19T11:10:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T17:10:54","slug":"a-ladys-worktable-in-the-corner-or-rethinking-everyday-practice-in-eighteenth-century-life-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ior-2020\/submissions-2024\/a-ladys-worktable-in-the-corner-or-rethinking-everyday-practice-in-eighteenth-century-life-2","title":{"rendered":"A Lady’s Worktable in the Corner, or Rethinking Everyday Practice in Eighteenth-Century Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Submitted by:<\/td>Kyung Hwa Eun<\/td><\/tr>
Department:<\/td>English and Film Studies<\/td><\/tr>
Faculty:<\/td>Arts<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This photo features an eighteenth-century worktable in the corner of a lady\u2019s bedroom at a house museum in Bath, England. The worktable might be too ordinary to pay attention to so that it can go unnoticed as a piece of furniture that fills the corner. However, I found this table intriguing as I began to rethink it as a space of individuality in which eighteenth-century women empower themselves to construct and practice their creativity and intellectual ability through everyday practice of sewing and embroidering: designing decorative patterns and presenting their interpretation of literary works in pictorial needlework. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My research analyses descriptions of everyday practice of shopping and shopkeeping in eighteenth-century novels that are usually neglected as backdrops which have nothing to do with plot development. I argue that the descriptions play a pivotal role in constructing a narrative of individuality, rethinking the descriptions as an empowering space in which female characters develop and present their desire for social identity and economic independence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hope my research to help many community members appreciate sometimes easily forgotten moments in everyday life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Was your image created using Generative AI?<\/em>
No.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How was your image created?<\/em>
I took this photo with an iPhone without a flash. It is an original image–without cropping, alteration, or editing (photoshopping).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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