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    Space, chastity and classicism at The British Museum

    Candlin, Fiona (2001) Space, chastity and classicism at The British Museum. In: Jones, David J. and Normie, Gerald (eds.) 2001 - A Spatial Odyssey. Nottingham: Continuing Education Press, pp. 54-65. ISBN 185041095X.

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    Abstract

    When the British Museum was re-built on a grand scale in the early 19th century it was already conceived of as a place of learning and for intellectual enquiry. In the words of the architect Sir Robert Smirke the building was intended to be ‘simple, grand, magnificent without ostentation and everywhere discovering a rational purpose effected by the best means’. When finished, the Museum’s Great Court was described as ‘grand, chaste, simple and naked’. In this paper I explore how concepts of learning, sexuality, gender and chastity were made material in the architectural space of the museum.

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    Item Type: Book Section
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): gender, museums, sexuality, neo-classicism, British Museum
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies
    Research Centres and Institutes: Birkbeck Knowledge Lab
    Depositing User: Fiona Candlin
    Date Deposited: 25 Nov 2008 16:43
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 16:48
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/753

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