A Cultural History of Twin Beds

A Cultural History of Twin Beds challenges our most ingrained assumptions about intimacy, sexuality, domesticity and hygiene by tracing the rise and fall of twin beds as a popular sleeping arrangement for married couples between 1870 and 1970.

Hilary Hinds is Professor of Literary Culture at Lancaster University, UK.

List of FiguresSeries Preface: Why Home?AcknowledgementsIntroduction: At Home with Twin Beds1. Double or Twin?Part One: Hygiene 2. Air in the Bedroom3. Vital Force4. Coda: Modern SleepPart Two: Modernity5. Anti-Victorianism and the Modern Home6. Modern by Design7. Coda: The Mise-en-Scène of Modern MarriagePart Three: Marriage8. At Home with a Stranger9. Marie Stopes and Modern Marriage10. Late Victorian Marital Advice11. Abstinence and Ambivalence12. Twin Beds: The Literary VerdictConclusion: Together and ApartNotesReferencesIndex