Table of Contents
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: Petrarch’s Houses in France and Italy — Harald Hendrix; 3. Shakespeare’s Birthplace in Stratford: Bardolatry Reconsidered — Michael Rosenth; 4. Remembrance and Revision: Goethe’s Houses in Frankfurt and Weimar — Bodo Plachta; 5. Goethe’s 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 Brontë 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 Artist’s House — Ben Thomas; 11. In Vasto and in London: The Rossettis’ Houses as Mirrors of Dislocated National Identities — Paola Spinozzi; 12. William Morris’s Houses and the Shaping of Aesthetic Socialism — Vita Fortunati; 13. Memories of Exotism and Empire: Henry Rider Haggard’s Wunderkammer at Ditchingham House — Marilena Parlati; 14. "La Maison d'un artiste": The Goncourts, Bibelots and Fin de Siècle 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 Goncourt’s "La Maison d’un artiste" — Patrizia Rosazza Ferraris; 16. A Nomadic Investment in History: Pierre Loti’s House at Rochefort-sur-Mer — Stephen Bann; 17. "Une chambre mentale": Proust’s Solitude — Jon Kear; 18. Epilogue; The Appeal of Writers’ Houses: "That Moment of Contact — Practical Yet Mystical — Between Writer and Reader" — Harald Hendrix; Bibliography; Contributors; Index
