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My Dark Room: Spaces of the Inner Self in Eighteenth-Century England de Julie Park

My Dark Room: Spaces of the Inner Self in Eighteenth-Century England

Autor Julie Park
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 aug 2023

Prin lucrarea My Dark Room, Julie Park propune o reevaluare a interiorității umane în Anglia secolului al XVIII-lea, aducând în prim-plan un concept inovator numit „formalism spațial”. Considerăm că noutatea absolută a acestui studiu rezidă în capacitatea autoarei de a demonstra cum spațiile fizice de izolare — de la grotele de grădină la camera obscură — nu au fost simple decoruri, ci instrumente active în modelarea conștiinței de sine. Spre deosebire de abordarea lui Simon Varey în Space and the Eighteenth-Century English Novel, care se concentrează pe spațiu ca instrument politic și de putere, Julie Park explorează dimensiunea psihică și experiențială a mediului construit.

Structura cărții urmărește o progresie fascinantă de la macro la micro. Primele capitole analizează „domeniile” exterioare, precum Nun Appleton sau grădinile lui Alexander Pope, pentru ca ulterior analiza să se restrângă spre spații tot mai intime, culminând cu un capitol dedicat „buzunarului” (pocket) în contextul romanului Pamela de Samuel Richardson. Recomandăm acest volum pentru rigoarea cu care integrează cultura materială — planșe color, desene arhitecturale și vestimentație — în analiza literară. Merită menționat că Park continuă aici explorările despre intersecția dintre obiecte și identitate începute în The Self and It, însă cu un accent mult mai pronunțat pe arhitectură și optică. Acoperă o arie similară cu At Home in the Eighteenth Century de Stephen G. Hague, dar cu o abordare mult mai teoretică și orientată spre istoria ideilor și a percepției vizuale, transformând „camera obscură” într-o paradigmă pentru întreaga viață interioară georgiană.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226824765
ISBN-10: 0226824764
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 8 color plates, 50 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor și studenților interesați de istoria culturii și a literaturii engleze. Cititorul va câștiga o înțelegere profundă a modului în care arhitectura și obiectele cotidiene au „construit” intimitatea modernă. Este o lectură esențială pentru cei care doresc să descopere cum dispozitivele optice și designul peisagistic au influențat structura narativă a primelor mari romane europene.

Despre autor

Julie Park este o cercetătoare specializată în literatura și cultura materială a secolului al XVIII-lea. În lucrările sale anterioare, precum The Self and It, a investigat modul în care obiectele (păpuși, automate) reflectă psihologia umană, o temă pe care o extinde în My Dark Room către spațiile arhitecturale. A editat, de asemenea, colecția interdisciplinară Organic Supplements, demonstrând un interes constant pentru relația dintre materialitate și experiența umană. Expertiza sa acoperă o gamă largă de discipline, de la istoria simțurilor până la analiza critică a formelor literare, fiind o voce consacrată în studiile despre perioada modernă timpurie.

Descriere scurtă

Examines spaces of inner life in eighteenth-century England to shed new light on interiority in literature and visual and material culture.

In what kinds of spaces do we become most aware of the thoughts in our own heads? In My Dark Room, Julie Park explores places of solitude and enclosure that gave eighteenth-century subjects closer access to their inner worlds: grottos, writing closets, landscape follies, and the camera obscura, that beguiling “dark room” inside which the outside world in all its motion and color is projected. The camera obscura and its dreamlike projections within it served as a paradigm for the everyday spaces, whether in built environments or in imaginative writing, that generated the fleeting states of interiority eighteenth-century subjects were compelled to experience and inhabit.

My Dark Room illuminates the spatial and physical dimensions of inner life in the long eighteenth century by synthesizing material analyses of diverse media, from optical devices and landscape architecture to women’s intimate dress, with close readings of literary texts not traditionally considered together, among them Andrew Marvell’s country house poem Upon Appleton House, Margaret Cavendish’s experimental epistolary work Sociable Letters, Alexander Pope’s heroic verse epistle Eloisa to Abelard, and Samuel Richardson’s novel Pamela. Park also analyzes letters and diaries, architectural plans, prints, drawings, paintings, and more, drawing our attention to the lively interactions between spaces and psyches in private environments. Park’s innovative method of “spatial formalism” reveals how physical settings enable psychic interiors to achieve vitality in lives both real and imagined.

Notă biografică

Julie Park is the Paterno Family Librarian for Literature and professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of The Self and It: Novel Objects in Eighteenth-Century England and coeditor of Organic Supplements: Bodies and Things of the Natural World, 1580-1790.

Cuprins

Introduction
1. Country House: Making Storylines at Nun Appleton
2. Closet: Margaret Cavendish’s Writing Worlds
3. Grotto: Design and Projection in Alexander Pope’s Garden
4. Pocket: Pamela’s Mobile Settings and Spatial Forms
5. Folly: Fictions of Gothic Space in Eighteenth-Century Landscapes
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index 

Recenzii

“A beautiful book on the privacies of writing, the rapt silences of the mind’s darkened room, lit by rays of the everyday: the habitations of thought that those before Proust conceived. My Dark Room answers to my sensibility; it teaches me who I am and where I come from, providing new coordinates and new darknesses between the points of light.”

“My Dark Room explores the ways in which the camera obscura, both materially and conceptually, provided the corridor through which the interior lives of eighteenth-century subjects passed. In a dazzling sequence of chapters Julie Park captures the excitements and tensions that emerged as imaginative private worlds were projected on real geographies and spaces. My Dark Room will unsettle the now very long-standing assumptions about the primacy of fiction and the novel in the construction of eighteenth-century subjectivities, as it makes a compelling case for the subject in space created  through interior projections.”

“Park animates the camera obscura trope as a perceptual dynamic for which, until now, we've had so few words. She interweaves a material history of the camera obscura with several disciplines until it becomes possible to reenvision eighteenth-century literary fiction as a transhistorical and intermedial home for the psyche. My Dark Room opens interiors we once assumed were shut, unsettling familiar narratives about the post-Enlightenment mind. This lucidly dreamed study is a feat of the critical imagination to be experienced as well as read. It will be admired and referenced for years to come.”

"My Dark Room is a wonderful mix of discovery and analysis. With an impressive range of historical and philosophical contexts and delightful close readings of architectural and literary works, Park reveals the camera obscura modelling the spatial relationship between mind, landscape, and narrative."

"Park is a tireless scholar; she clearly loves what she's discovering spirited away in the archives, and her sense of wonder and delight can be contagious."

“In a book that takes illumination and insight as its subject, [Park’s] meticulous close readings and case studies open up rich possibilities for future work.”

"The controlling metaphor of Park's stunningly original argument is the camera obscura, the dark room within which one stands and views external reality as it is transfigured by the space in which it is projected and by the imagination of the individual who perceives it in this space. . . . Park references paintings, letters, furniture, gardens, and other aspects of 18th-century material life to bolster her claim that the dark rooms of the period were the spaces in which the individual's imagination claimed authority over self and experience. Lavishly illustrated, eminently readable, brilliantly argued, utterly convincing. . . . Essential."

"In the intellectual and imaginative landscapes of the eighteenth century, sites of illumination and reflection were not solely metaphors; they were architectural, emotional, and cognitive spaces. Julie Park’s My Dark Room: Spaces of the Inner Self in Eighteenth-Century England explores this link between abstraction and vision as inspired by the camera obscura: dark spaces of contemplation helped writers and thinkers observe their worlds and interpret their experiences...Rather than presenting a neat dichotomy between Enlightenment rationality and Romantic subjectivity, the orientation of dark space to illuminated space makes material how intertwined the two modes were: each innovation results in the tools to make sense of elusive and difficult-to-fix internal processes."