Oo, that barn is lovely.
this was, after all, the century that produced the term “conspicuous consumption” and saw the invention of mass-production leading to the huge amounts of “furnishings, pictures and pianos” James Walvin broadly describes coming to occupy the average British home in Victorian Values. The ensuing rejection of an essentially Victorian materialism is what Matthew Sweet calls in his Inventing the Victorians “the hygienic, formally pure innovations of Modernism.” (123) --A short extract from my master's thesis which I may or may not have cannibalized from an essay on Modernism I wrote last year.