Space and the 18c English Nove

By: Simon Varey

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Hardcover | 5 November 1990

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In this challenging and original illustrated study, Simon Varey relates the idea of space in the major novels of Defoe, Fielding and Richardson to its use in the theory and practice of eighteenth-century architecture. Concepts of divine design, expressed in the work of philosophers and theologians, introduced an ideological element to the notion of space which gave it a heightened significance in contemporary thought. Professor Varey's central argument is that space becomes a political instrument used to establish conformity, assert power and give form to the aspirations of social classes. He draws on a wide range of architectural books, both English and European, and on the example of Bath (focusing in particular on its chief architect in the eighteenth century, John Wood). The discussion of the novels examines narrative as a form of spatial design, the use of architectural imagery to describe people, and the political control of social space. The result is a work which makes fertile conjunctions between literary criticism, architecture and the history of ideas.

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"Knowledgeable, specific, and well-designed...the first book to talk not only about the influence of architecture on literature, but to enact that interplay, to make readers enter the edifice of writing." Kevin L. Cope, Philological Quarterly

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List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on translations
Introduction

Space, architecture and politics
Space, the architect and the design argument

The rise of Bath
An architect's imagination: John Wood's Bath

Defoe and the politics of space
Fielding and the convenience of design
Richardson and the violation of space
The politics of space
Index
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