In Housing Problems, Susan Bernstein studies the actual houses of Goethe, Walpole, and Freud alongside textual articulations of the architectonic problems of design, containment, shelter, and fragmentation. The linking of "text" and "house" brings into focus the historical tradition that has established a symmetry between design and instance, interior and exterior, author and house—an often unexamined fantasy of historicism. Taking as its point of departure Goethe's efforts to establish...
Susan Bernstein is Professor of Comparative Literature and German Studies at Brown University. She is the author of Virtuosity of the Nineteenth Century: Performing Music and Language in Heine, Liszt, and Baudelaire (Stanford, 1998).
"To read across Goethe, Walpole, Freud, and Heidegger is to be part of a genuinely novel interpretive experience . . . Literature's encounter with architecture, via Bernstein's book, might become productive for knowledge and debates that exist within literary theory." (Charles Rice Eighteenth-Century Fiction)
"In her highly original new study, Housing Problems, Susan Bernstein compares the actuality of built architecture with the concept behind it in private homes belonging to...
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