Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Reading the House of Fiction: From Object to Interior 1720–1920
This article traces a line through the representation of the domestic interior in British fiction from the 1720s to the 1920s. It argues that during this period the emphasis of description shifts from the enumeration of objects surrounding fiction's protagonists towards invoking a sense of the domestic interior itself, and that this move can be linked to the novel's varying relationship to, and questioning of, narrative realism. Starting from Henry James's phrase “the house of fiction,” it asks whether his metaphor and the related association between the interior and interiority are anything more than linguistic fortuity. Focusing on the narrative modes described as “free indirect discourse” and “stream of consciousness,” it argues that authors exploit the flexibility of narrative styles to represent both the domestic interior, and the consciousness or interiority of its inhabitants, and that even when challenged, this association is key to understanding fiction's representation of the home in this period.
Reading the House of Fiction: From Object to Interior 1720–1920
This article traces a line through the representation of the domestic interior in British fiction from the 1720s to the 1920s. It argues that during this period the emphasis of description shifts from the enumeration of objects surrounding fiction's protagonists towards invoking a sense of the domestic interior itself, and that this move can be linked to the novel's varying relationship to, and questioning of, narrative realism. Starting from Henry James's phrase “the house of fiction,” it asks whether his metaphor and the related association between the interior and interiority are anything more than linguistic fortuity. Focusing on the narrative modes described as “free indirect discourse” and “stream of consciousness,” it argues that authors exploit the flexibility of narrative styles to represent both the domestic interior, and the consciousness or interiority of its inhabitants, and that even when challenged, this association is key to understanding fiction's representation of the home in this period.
Reading the House of Fiction: From Object to Interior 1720–1920
Grant, Charlotte (Autor:in)
Home Cultures ; 2 ; 233-249
01.11.2005
17 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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