HPA researchers contribute to new book on writers' houses
Jon Kear and Ben Thomas have both made contributions to a new book published in the Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies series: Writers' Houses and the Making of Memory'.
According to Harald Hendrix, Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Utrecht and editor of this volume, 'this innovative new book examines the ways in which writers’ houses contribute to the making of memory. It shows that houses built or inhabited by poets and novelists both reflect and construct the author’s private and artistic persona'.
The international profile of the contributing authors reflects the fact that this volume of essays is a product of the EEC funded ACUME Cultural Thematic Network, which is hosted by the University of Bologna but involves various Universities across Europe including Kent.
Jon Kear, 'Une chambre mentale: Proust's Solitude', pp. 221-34.
Ben Thomas, 'Casa Vasari in Arezzo: Writing and Decorating the Artist's House', pp. 139-48.