Architecture and Modern Literature explores the representation and interpretation of architectural space in modern literature from the early nineteenth century

Our built environment inspires writers to reflect on the human experience, discover its history, or make it up. Buildings tell stories. Castles, country homes,

In the late 19th century the conventions of domesticity came under scrutiny by British writers & others intent on bringing a modern spirit into the home. Rosner

Literary texts and buildings have always represented space, narrated cultural and political values, and functioned as sites of personal and collective identity.

This volume explores the various strategies by which appropriate pasts were construed in scholarship, literature, art, and architecture in order to create “na