Introduction: The Spatial Turn

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vi
4. Series Editor’s Preface viii
5. Acknowledgements x
6. Abbreviations xii
7. Prologue Joris-Karl Huysmans, or ‘After Dickens’ 1
8. Introduction: The Spatial Turn 20
9. Chapter 1 John Ruskin: Towards a Theoretics of Space 52
10. Chapter 2 Charles Dickens: After Realism 83
11. Chapter 3 Walter Pater: Towards an Aesthetics of Space 123
12. Chapter 4 Oscar Wilde: Cosmopolitan Space 165
13. Chapter 5 Henry James: Modern Space 206
14. Conclusion Unreal Cities – Towards Modernism 238
15. Works Cited 259
16. Index 281