Title: Writers' Houses and the Making of Memory
First published: October 5, 2007
Description: This 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 author’s 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.
People: Francis Petrarch, Giorgio Vasari, William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), Walter Scott, Bronte Sisters, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), Mario Praz, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris (1834-1896), Henry Rider Haggard, Edmond de Goncourt, Pierre Loti, Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
Time periods: 1350-1920