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

by Julie Park

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226824764
• ISBN13: 9780226824765
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"