ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|11 pages
Writers' Houses as Media of Expression and Remembrance
From Self-Fashioning to Cultural Memory
part I|124 pages
Cultural Memory
chapter 2|15 pages
The Early Modern Invention of Literary Tourism
Petrarch's Houses in France and Italy
chapter 5|14 pages
Goethe's Home in the “First City of the World”
The Making of the Casa di Goethe in Rome
chapter 11|14 pages
In Vasto and in London
The Rossettis' Houses as Mirrors of Dislocated National Identities
chapter 13|11 pages
Memories of Exoticism and Empire
Henry Rider Haggard's Wunderkammer at Ditchingham House
chapter 15|3 pages
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
