The ClosetPub Date : 2020-05-19DOI: 10.23943/princeton/9780691198231.003.0001
D. Bobker
{"title":"The Way In","authors":"D. Bobker","doi":"10.23943/princeton/9780691198231.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691198231.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter outlines the broad historical and conceptual foundations for the focused explorations on the closet. It analyzes the domestic privacy and modern selfhood that has overshadowed the closet's origins as a site of politicized intimacy and its flexibility as a locus of interpersonal relations in eighteenth-century Britain. It also assesses how the emergence of democratic social feelings has generally directed attention away from the closet and toward more obviously heterogeneous scenes of sociability, such as the coffee house. The chapter considers the closet's peculiar aptness as a setting and symbol of social transition. It explains how the closet is widely recognized as a place where reciprocal feelings could flourish against a backdrop of rigid status distinctions and how it revealed the exhilarating and also uncomfortable new processes and prospects of inclusion.","PeriodicalId":188115,"journal":{"name":"The Closet","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129492565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The ClosetPub Date : 2020-05-19DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvrs9154.12
D. Bobker
{"title":"Miss C——y’s Cabinet of Curiosities","authors":"D. Bobker","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvrs9154.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvrs9154.12","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter points out, according to Anthony Hamilton and Jonathan Swift, how closets can still represent the highly circumscribed sociability associated with the face-to-face exchange of handwritten manuscripts. It talks about the hundreds of books that are designated as closets or cabinets that had been published in Britain by the end of the eighteenth century. As the authors and editors of these printed closets and cabinets nervously underscored their own close connections to courtly closets, prayer closets, and elite cabinets of curiosity, they implicitly positioned their readers as illegitimate intruders or spies. The chapter also reviews the complex dynamics of partial inclusion that are directly addressed in a particularly self-reflexive instance. It emphasizes that the one-way mode of visual intimacy channeled the excitement and social disorientation that accompanied the increasing accessibility of knowledge in the eighteenth century.","PeriodicalId":188115,"journal":{"name":"The Closet","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130647700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The ClosetPub Date : 2020-05-19DOI: 10.23943/princeton/9780691198231.003.0006
D. Bobker
{"title":"Coda","authors":"D. Bobker","doi":"10.23943/princeton/9780691198231.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691198231.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter considers many histories that intersect with and inform that of the eighteenth-century closet. It includes the history of the Turkish hammam, the water closet, the camera obscura, and the museum. It analyzes the multiple strands that make it possible to assemble a lexicon of intimacy that encompasses the evolving connotations and denotations of the word closet along with those of many related terms, such as cabinet, green room, peeping Tom, privy, secretary, seraglio, and vis-à-vis. The chapter also reveals that the histories of the bathing closet and the water closet, though both concerned with cleanliness and plumbing, unfurl across very different timelines and may evoke very different social milieus and cultural associations. It describes the closet prayer's extensive hold over the intimate imagination that is revealed through its depiction as a form of erotic favoritism, as a practice for the privy, and as a source of spiritual insights to be immortalized. It also outlines the recurring international perspectives that situate the rise of British closet culture within larger political dynamics.","PeriodicalId":188115,"journal":{"name":"The Closet","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115855338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The ClosetPub Date : 2020-05-19DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvrs9154.8
D. Bobker
{"title":"The Duchess of York’s Bathing Closet","authors":"D. Bobker","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvrs9154.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvrs9154.8","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter looks at the courtly closet alliances in Memoirs of Count Grammont by the Anglo-Irish nobleman Anthony Hamilton. It focuses particularly on the seduction scene that was set in the Duchess of York's bathing closet. It also analyzes the setting of Hamilton's longest intrigue that shores up the elitism of his retrospective secret history by situating homoerotic desire within a tradition of competitive favoritism at Charles II's court, which he clearly admired. The chapter talks about the bathing closet that stands as Hamilton's reluctant acknowledgment that English absolutism, manuscript culture, and their unique modes of power-soaked intimacy were on the decline. It also points out how Hamilton inadvertently helped to launch a model of author–reader relations as a kind of inclusive virtual favoritism.","PeriodicalId":188115,"journal":{"name":"The Closet","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123897181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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