Stories from the Space Between

Interwar Appliances

March 10, 2022 Space Between Society
Stories from the Space Between
Interwar Appliances
Show Notes

What can refrigerators, vacuums, stoves, and other appliances tell us about class, labor, race, and gender in the 1920s and '30s and beyond? Apparently quite a bit, as Rachele Dini discusses in this episode. Rachele is Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature at Roehampton University and the author of Consumerism, Waste and Re-use in Twentieth-century Fiction: Legacies of the Avant-Garde (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and 'All-Electric' Narratives: Time-Saving Appliances and Domesticity in American Literature, 1945-2020 (Bloomsbury, 2021). Here, she discusses interwar appliances alongside contemporary advertisements and examples from Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, William Carlos Williams, and Gertrude Stein.