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

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

Bauer, Dominique
DuBois, Alexandre
Cornish, Jill

Hardcover

Series: Spatial Imageries in Historical Perspective

Literary CriticismFrench History

ISBN10: 9463723978
ISBN13: 9789463723978
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 22 2026
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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