Boarding Houses and Bedsits in Muriel Spark's Writings
Journal: Critical Theory
Year: 2024

Boarding houses and bedsits are crucial to the life and literary career of Muriel Spark. Temporary accommodation has provided her with source material and space to write in. This article examines both Spark's life experience in boarding houses, bedsits and rented rooms and her literary representations of these spaces. Through reading Spark's work alongside Foucault's theory of heterotopia, it investigates the transitory, precarious but also potentially transgressive nature of the boarding enviro