Architectural Space and the Imagination: Houses in Literature and Art from Classical to Contemporary

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I. Foundations.- Chapter 2. Bifurcated Thought: Reflections on Inventive Thinking.- Chapter 3. Murmuring Houses for the Mythical Mind.- Chapter 4. The House of the Senses: Experiencing Buildings with Peter Zumthor and Pliny the Younger.- Part II. Reading Literary Architectures.- Chapter 5. Behold the House of the Lord: Encountering Architecture in the Codex Amiatinus.- Chapter 6. Placing the Dead: Architectural Imagination and Posthumous Identity in Medieval France.- Chapter 7. Domestic Devotion: Representing Household Space in Late Medieval Religious Writing.- Chapter 8. 'Drawd Too Architectooralooral': Charles Dickens, the Bildungsroman and the Spatial Imagination.- Chapter 9. Spaces of the A-Temporal: Italo Calvino s Invisible Cities and the Early Modern.- Part III. Architectures of the Literary Imagination.- Chapter 10. 'His Midas Touch': building and writing in the poetry of Edmund Spenser and Seamus Heaney.- Chapter 11. Yeats's Stanzas, Yeats's Rooms.- Chapter 12. 'Nature's Cabinet Unlock'd': The Cognitive Cabinet of Margaret Cavendish's Poems and Fancies.- Chapter 13. Elizabeth Bishop's House in the Mind: Memory, Imagination, and Interior Space in 'The End of March'.- Chapter 14. 'The Mind in the House' or the 'House in the Mind': Poetic Composition and Reclaimed Memory.