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The Emergence Of The Interior Considers How The Concept And Experience Of The Domestic Interior Have Been Formed From The Beginning Of The Nineteenth Century. It Considers The Interior's Emergence In Relation To The Thinking Of Walter Benjamin And Sigmund Freud, And, Through Case Studies, In Architecture's Trajectories Toward Modernism.--jacket. Part I. Orientations: Irrecoverable Inhabitations: Walter Benjamin And Histories Of The Interior -- Lost Objects: Sigmund Freud's Psychoanalytical Interior -- Part Ii. Trajectories: Imagining The Interior: Plan And Comfort -- Consuming The Interior: Geography And Identity -- Recognizing The Interior: Space And Image -- Conclusion: Mediatized Domesticity. Charles Rice. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 120-157) And Index.