The Bourgeois Interior

Contents

Contents List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Introduction 1 1. Robinson Crusoe’s Cave 25 2. Fanny’s Room 40 3. Charles Dickens and the Victorian Addiction to Dwelling 60 4. The Smell and Spell of “Things” in Henry James’s The Spoils of Poynton 84 5. Virginia Woolf and the Passing of Victorian Domesticity 103 6. Bourgeois Memory and Dream in the Domestic Interiors of Ingmar Bergman 119 Conclusion: John Updike, W. G. Sebald, and the Afterlife of the Bourgeoisie 137 Appendix 151 Notes 155 Works Cited 173 Index 183 ...