Writers' Houses and the Making of Memory [Paperback]

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 authors 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.

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: Petrarchs Houses in France and Italy -- Harald Hendrix; 3. Shakespeares Birthplace in Stratford: Bardolatry Reconsidered -- Michael Rosenth; 4. Remembrance and Revision: Goethes Houses in Frankfurt and Weimar -- Bodo Plachta; 5. Goethes 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 Bront? 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 Artists House -- Ben Thomas; 11. In Vasto and in London: The Rossettis Houses as Mirrors of Dislocated National Identities -- Paola Spinozzi; 12. William Morriss Houses and the Shaping of Aesthetic Socialism -- Vita Fortunati; 13. Memories of Exotism and Empire: Henry Rider Haggards Wunderkammer at Ditchingham House -- Marilena Parlati; 14. La Maison d'un artiste : The Goncourts, Bibelots and Fin de Si?cle 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 Goncourts La Maison dun artiste -- Patrizia Rosazza Ferraris; 16. A Nomadic Investment in History: Pierre Lotis House atl“$