Spatial Imagination and Modernity in European Francophone Culture During the Long Nineteenth Century: Critical Interiority

Bauer, Dominique (Editor)/ Dubois, Alexandre (Editor)/ Cornish, Jill (Editor)/ Haklin, Kathryn A. (Editor)

ISBN 10: 9463723978 / ISBN 13: 9789463723978

Edité par Routledge, 2026

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202 pages. 9.18x6.12x9.45 inches. In Stock.

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• Titre: Spatial Imagination and Modernity in European Francophone Culture During the Long Nineteenth Century: Critical Interiority
• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date de parution: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 9463723978
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9789463723978
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Brand New
• Poids: 0,43 kilogramme

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This book explores the concept of critical interiority in literature, art, and architecture within European francophone culture, spanning the late eighteenth to early twentieth centuries.

As a lived, imagined, or conceptualized interior space, critical interiority initially suggests a duality between interior and exterior spaces. However, this division is simultaneously destabilized, to the point where the distinction between the two spatial categories nearly dissolves. This paradox forms a lens through which modern subjectivity is analysed as an interiority. By examining examples of critical interiority found in architecture, literature, and visual art, the chapters in this volume illuminate the fundamental tensions of modernity regarding the subject and its relationship to authenticity, gender, identity, memory, nature, privacy, sociability, and temporality.

Set at the intersections of various critical frameworks, this book offers a unique and interdisciplinary perspective on space. It will be of interest to researchers in the fields of nineteenth-century literature and architecture, France and Belgium, general cultural history, domesticity and the city, art history and aesthetic theory, literary genres and comparative literature.

À propos de l'auteur

Dominique Bauer is an Associate Professor of Cultural History in the Faculty of Architecture, KU Leuven, Belgium. She publishes on spatial images, temporality, and modernity in long nineteenth‑century francophone culture from a comparative perspective, with a focus on literary, philosophical (Benjamin, Nietzsche, Bergson), and artistic sources.

Alexandre Dubois is an Assistant Professor and Director of French at Regis University, USA. His research focuses on the fantasy of global colonialism that characterized French geographical societies from the late nineteenth century to the present day. He also specializes in Second Language Acquisition and Transnational French.

Jill Cornish is a full‑time senior lecturer in French at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Her research focuses on domestic space, specifically the bedroom, in nineteenth‑century French literature and visual art as the space relates to
conceptions of identity. She also works on Second Language Acquisition in language lab courses and uses of artificial intelligence in the language classroom.

Kathryn A. Haklin is an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of French literature, medical humanities, cinema, and visual culture. She is a lecturer in French at Washington University in St. Louis and her research appears in Dix‑Neuf, L’Esprit Créateur, MLN, Écrire le huis clos au XIXe siècle (2024), and Ephemeral Spectacles, Exhibition Spaces and Museums 1750–1918 (2021).