Vacuum Cleaner: A Cultural Investigation (2024)
by Vacuum Cleaner: A Cultural Investigation (2024)
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This book offers an entertaining study of the facts and fantasies associated with the vacuum cleaner as it evolved from a luxury gimmick to a household necessity. The iconic appliance of twentieth-century domestic revolution, the vacuum cleaner stands at the forefront of radical changes in technology, automation, finance, marketing, hygiene, infrastructure, time-management, domestic labour, and the history of dirt. This appliance also insinuates itself into the dominant phobias of the period, including totalitarianism and nuclear war. Maud Ellmann shows how modern literature, art, and other media have transformed this humble domestic mod con into a curmudgeon, windbag, cannibal, vampire, dictator, infanticidal mother, freedom fighter, mantrap, and lothario.
Product Details
- Palgrave Macmillan Brand
- Jul 26, 2024 Pub Date:
- 9783031566653 ISBN-13:
- 3031566653 ISBN-10:
- English Language
- 8.27 in * 0.29 in * 5.83 in Dimensions:
- 0 lb Weight:
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