Spaces of Belgian Culture

Introduction: Spaces of Belgian Culture between the Public and the Private, the Self and the Other (c. 1850-c. 1920)

Van Damme, Sterckx and Bauer

Spaces of Public Culture â" Attraction and Education

1. A Garden with A View: Visual Culture at the Antwerp Zoo

Leen Engelen

2. Enlightened Spaces: Public Lecturing, the Projection Lantern and Society Life in Fin-de-si¨cle Belgium, c. 1900 â" c. 1920

Margo Buelens-Terryn, Doris Blancquaert, and Ilja Van Damme

3. Staging a Poetâs Misery: Settings and Supporting Actors of Charles Baudelaireâs Stay in Belgium (1864-1866)

Tom Verschaffel

4. Down the Rabbit Hole: The Hidden Spaces of Le Diable au Corps in Brussels (1892- 1898)

Evelien Jonckheere and Davy Depelchin

Spaces of Private Culture â" Intimacy and Memory

5. Bonheur & Douleur: Alfred Stevens and the Ambivalent Depiction of Mothers in Domestic Settings

Apolline Malevez and Marjan Sterckx

6. Representation of Fin-de-si¨cle Belgian Queer Spaces in Georges Eekhoudâs Short Stories

Michael Rosenfeld

7. Memory Space and Modern Temporality: Fernand Khnopffâs Artistâs Studio in Light of Rodenbach and Huysmans

Dominique Bauer

8. Ensorâs Souvenirs: Objects and their Meanings in the Artistâs Late Still Lifes

Apolline Malevez

Spaces of Belgian Sociability â" Identities and Nations

9. Musealisation and Meaning Making in the Studio of Constantin Meunier

Ulrike M¼ller

10. The Private Interior as Exhibition Space: The Catalogues of the 1880 National Exhibition in Brussels and Jules-Jacques Van Ysendyck (1836-1891)

Zsuzsanna B¶r¶cz

11. Exporting National Identity Abroad? The Neo-Flemish Renaissance Castle in Beijing (1902-1909) as an Instrument of Communication and Legitimation

Charlotte Rottiers

12. Belgian Space in Exile in Interwar Britain in Interwar Britain: The Anglo-Belgian Union and its âFriendly Competitionâ with the Anglo-Batavian Society

Ulrich Tiedau

13. Domestic Untranslatability: The Idea of the Colonizerâs House in Colonial Indonesia and Congo at the Turn of the Century

Paoletta Holst, Johan Lagae and David Hutama Setiadi

Epilogue

Laurence Brogniez and Tatiana Debroux