Writers' Houses and the Making of Memory

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-415-54082-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 429 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

This innovative new book examines the ways in which writers’ houses contribute to the making of memory. It shows that houses built or inhabited by poets and novelists both reflect and construct the author’s private and artistic persona; it also demonstrates how this materialized process of self-fashioning is subsequently appropriated within various strategies and policies of cultural memory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hendrix, Harald

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Writers’ Houses as Media of Expression and Remembrance: From Self-Fashioning to Cultural Memory -- Harald Hendrix br>br>br>br>I. Cultural Memory br>br>2. The Early Modern Invention of Literary Tourism: Petrarch’s Houses in France and Italy -- Harald Hendrix br>br>3. Shakespeare’s Birthplace in Stratford: Bardolatry Reconsidered -- Michael Rosenthbr>br>4. Remembrance and Revision: Goethe’s Houses in Frankfurt and Weimar -- Bodo Plachta br>br>5. Goethe’s Home in the First City of the World: The Making of the Casa di Goethe -- Dorothee Hockbr>br>6. Abbotsford: Dislocation and Cultural Remembrance -- Ann Rigneybr>br>7. Myth and Memory: Reading the Brontë Parsonage -- Christine Alexander br>br>8. Memory Regained: Founding and Funding the Keats Shelley Memorial House in Rome -- Catherine Payling br>br>9. The Rooms of Memory: The Praz Museum in Rome -- Paola Colaiacomobr>br>br>br>II. Self-Fashioning br>br>10. Casa Vasari in Arezzo: Writing and Decorating the Artist’s House -- Ben Thomasbr>br>11. In Vasto and in London: The Rossettis’ Houses as Mirrors of Dislocated National Identities -- Paola Spinozzi br>br>12. William Morris’s Houses and the Shaping of Aesthetic Socialism -- Vita Fortunatibr>br>13. Memories of Exotism and Empire: Henry Rider Haggard’s Wunderkammer at Ditchingham House -- Marilena Parlati br>br>14. La Maison d'un artiste: The Goncourts, Bibelots and Fin de Siècle Interiority -- Claire O'Mahony br>br>15. Collecting and Autobiography: A Note on the Origins of La Casa della vita by Mario Praz and its Relation to Edmond de Goncourt’s La Maison d’un artiste -- Patrizia Rosazza Ferraris br>br>16. A Nomadic Investment in History: Pierre Loti’s House at Rochefort-sur-Mer -- Stephen Bann br>br>17. Une chambre mentale: Proust’s Solitude -- Jon Kear br>br>br>br>18. Epilogue br>br>The Appeal of Writers’ Houses: That Moment of Contact -- Practical Yet Mystical -- Between Writer and Reader -- Harald Hendrix br>br>br>br>Bibliography br>br>Contributorsbr>br>Index

Über Autor(innen)

Harald Hendrix is Professor of Italian Studies and heads the program of Renaissance Studies at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.