Writers' Houses and the Making of Memory

Abstract

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

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