This book sheds light on the intimate relationship between built space and the mind, exploring the ways in which architecture inhabits and shapes both the memory and the imagination. Examining the role of the house, a recurrent, even haunting, image in art and literature from classical times to the present day, it includes new work by both leading scholars and early career academics, providing fresh insights into the spiritual, social, and imaginative significances of built space. Further, it reveals how engagement with both real and imagined architectural structures has long been a way of understanding the intangible workings of the mind itself.
Chapter
1. Introduction.- Part I. Foundations.
Chapter 2. Bifurcated
Thought: Reflections on Inventive Thinking.
Chapter
3. Murmuring Houses for
the Mythical Mind.
Chapter 4. The House of the Senses: Experiencing
Buildings with Peter Zumthor and Pliny the Younger.- Part II. Reading
Literary Architectures.- Chapter
5. Behold the House of the Lord:
Encountering Architecture in the Codex Amiatinus.
Chapter
6. Placing the
Dead: Architectural Imagination and Posthumous Identity in Medieval
France.- Chapter
7. Domestic Devotion: Representing Household Space in Late
Medieval Religious Writing.
Chapter
8. Drawd Too Architectooralooral:
Charles Dickens, the Bildungsroman and the Spatial Imagination.- Chapter
9.
Spaces of the A-Temporal: Italo Calvino`s Invisible Cities and the Early
Modern.- Part III. Architectures of the Literary Imagination.
Chapter
10.
His Midas Touch: building and writing in the poetry of Edmund Spenser and
Seamus Heaney.
Chapter
11. Yeatss Stanzas, Yeatss Rooms.- Chapter
12.
Natures Cabinet Unlockd: The Cognitive Cabinet of Margaret Cavendishs
Poems and Fancies.
Chapter
13. Elizabeth Bishops House in the Mind: Memory,
Imagination, and Interior Space in The End of March.- Chapter
14. The Mind
in the House or the House in the Mind: Poetic Composition and Reclaimed
Memory.
Dr Jane Griffiths is an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford, UK, and Placito Fellow and Tutor in English at Wadham College. She has written extensively on English poetry and poets of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Her most recent collection of poetry is Silent in Finisterre (2017).
Dr Adam Hanna is Lecturer in Irish Literature at University College Cork, Ireland. He is the author of Northern Irish Poetry and Domestic Space (2015), as well as of several articles and book chapters on Irish literature.
