Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Note on translations; Introduction; Part I: 1. Space, architecture and politics; 2. Space, the architect and the design argument; Part II: 3. The rise of Bath; 4. An architect's imagination: John Wood's Bath; Part III: 5. Defoe and the politics of space; 6. Fielding and the convenience of design; 7. Richardson and the violation of space; 8. The politics of space; Index.

Promotional Information

This study, first published in 1990, relates the idea of spatial design in the major novels of Defoe, Fielding and Richardson to eighteenth-century architecture.

Reviews

"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