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century women’s writing and modernism. She has published articles on Jean Rhys
and Dorothy Richardson and her monograph British Boarding Houses in Interwar
Women’s Literature: Alternative Domestic Spaces is forthcoming.
Essays on Literature and Architecture
Nicole Sierra is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of English
at King’s College London, where she teaches twentieth- and twenty-first-century
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literature and critical theory. She is currently finishing a monograph on architec-
ture, literature and postmodernism and working on a book project on the British-
born Surrealist Leonora Carrington.
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Studies in the Relationship between the Arts
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Terri Mullholland and Nicole Sierra (eds)
Spatial Perspectives
Essays on Literature and Architecture
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Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Terri Mullholland and Nicole Sierra
Introduction 1
part i Urban Landscapes: Text and Image 5
Douglas Tallack
Tall Stories: New York Skyscrapers in Art and Literature 7
Julian Ferraro
Comics and the Architecture of Nostalgia: Seth’s Dominion City 27
part ii Architecture as National Literary Event 53
Nathaniel Robert Walker
Crystallizing Visions: Glass Architecture in Utopian Literature
before and after 1851 55
Henderson Downing
To the Roundhouse: Returning London Psychogeography 79
Lisa Mullen
Literature and Distraction: Poetic Inscription at the 2012
London Olympics and the 1951 Festival of Britain 101
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part III Textual Spaces / Spatial Texts 121
Darren R. Deane
Louis Kahn’s Translation of the Fairy Tale:
A Study in Literary-Architectural Interaction 123
Esra Almas
Representation, Refuse and the Urban Context in Orhan
Pamuk’s Museum(s) of Innocence 145
Greg Thomas
The Tower of Babel: Concrete Poetry and Architecture in
Britain and Beyond 161
part IV Reading the Domestic Interior 189
Yasmine Shamma
‘Room in the room that you room in?’: Ted Berrigan’s Structures 191
Magdalena J. Zaborowska
No House in the World for James Baldwin: Reading
Transnational Black Queer Domesticity in St Paul-de-Vence 215
Notes on Contributors 249
Index 253
Illustrations
Terri Mullholland and Nicole Sierra
Introduction
Figure 1.1: St Cross Building, Manor Road, University of
Oxford, by Leslie Martin and Colin St John
Wilson, 1964. Courtesy of Bodleian Law Library. 1
Julian Ferraro
Comics and the Architecture of Nostalgia: Seth’s Dominion City
Figure 3.1: ‘Life is but a dream’, George Sprott: (1894–1975).
Drawn & Quarterly (2009). 30
Figure 3.2: Coronet Lecture Hall, George Sprott: (1894–1975).
Drawn & Quarterly (2009). 36
Figure 3.3: ‘A confection for the mind’, George Sprott:
(1894–1975). Drawn & Quarterly (2009). 37
Figure 3.4: ‘Channel 10 on your dial’, George Sprott:
(1894–1975). Drawn & Quarterly (2009). 39
Figure 3.5: ‘Enjoy our high-hat service’, George Sprott:
(1894–1975). Drawn & Quarterly (2009). 41
Nathaniel Robert Walker
Crystallizing Visions: Glass Architecture in
Utopian Literature before and after 1851
Figure 4.1: Glass palace from David M. Moore, The Ages of
Progress, 1856. Courtesy of the John Hay Library,
Brown University. 69
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Henderson Downing
To the Roundhouse: Returning London Psychogeography
Figure 5.1: Exterior of the Roundhouse from Regent’s Park
Road, London. Copyright Henderson Downing. 93
Lisa Mullen
Literature and Distraction: Poetic Inscription at the
2012 London Olympics and the 1951 Festival of Britain
Figure 6.1: The wall inscribed with lines from Tennyson’s
‘Ulysses’. Commissioning architect Allford Hall
Monaghan Morris. Photograph courtesy of
Timothy Soar Archive. 103
Figure 6.2: Interior of the Lion and Unicorn pavilion at the
1951 South Bank Exhibition. Crown Copyright
1951 / Royal College of Art archive. 109
Darren R. Deane
Louis Kahn’s Translation of the Fairy Tale:
A Study in Literary-Architectural Interaction
Figure 7.1: GM Pavilion Development Sketch, Louis Kahn,
1964. Louis I. Kahn Collection, Architectural
Archives of the University of Pennsylvania, USA. 123
Esra Almas
Representation, Refuse and the Urban Context in
Orhan Pamuk’s Museum(s) of Innocence
Figure 8.1: Collection of 4,213 cigarette butts.
Image courtesy of The Museum of
Innocence, Istanbul. 145
