Our House: The Representation of Domestic Space in Modern Culture: 2 (Nature, Culture and Literature) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9042019697 ISBN 13: 9789042019690

Publisher: Editions Rodopi B.V., 2006

Synopsis

Space has emerged in recent years as a radical category in a range of related disciplines across the humanities. Of the many possible applications of this new interest, some of the most exciting and challenging have addressed the issue of domestic architecture and its function as a space for both the dramatisation and the negotiation of a cluster of highly salient issues concerning, amongst other things, belonging and exclusion, fear and desire, identity and difference. Our House is a cross-disciplinary collection of essays taking as its focus both the prospect and the possibility of 'the house'. This latter term is taken in its broadest possible resonance, encompassing everything from the great houses so beloved of nineteenth-century English novelists to the caravans and mobile homes of the latterday travelling community, and all points in between. The essays are written by a combination of established and emerging scholars, working in a variety of scholarly disciplines, including literary criticism, sociology, cultural studies, history, popular music, and architecture. No specific school or theory predominates, although the work of two key figures - Gaston Bachelard and Martin Heidegger - is engaged throughout. This collection engages with a number of key issues raised by the increasingly troubled relationship between the cultural (built) and natural environments in the contemporary world.

About this title

About the Author:

Gerry Smyth is Reader in Cultural History in the Department of English at Liverpool John Moores University. His previous books include The Novel and the Nation (1997), Space and the Irish Cultural Imagination(2001) and Noisy Island (2005). Jo Croft is Senior Lecturer in English at Liverpool John Moores University. Her research interests include adolescence, children's literature and psychoanalysis.

About this edition

• Publisher: Editions Rodopi B.V.
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 9042019697
• ISBN 13: 9789042019690
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 268
• Editor: Smyth Gerry, Croft Jo