Spatial Imageries in Historical Perspective
About the Book Series
This new series is looking for interdisciplinary contributions that focus on the historical study of the imagined space, or of spaces and places as sensorial, experiential or intellectual images, from the interior to the landscape, in written, visual or material sources. From (closed) gar-dens and parks to cabinets, from the odd room to the train compartment, from the façade to the prison cell, from the reliquary to the desk, a variety of spaces in the shape of imageries and images unveils historical attitudes to history, to the object, to the other and the self and presents a subject that experiences, acts, imagines and knows. Spatial imageries and images in this sense constitute a prominent theme in various fields within the Humanities, from museum studies, intellectual history and literature to material culture studies, to name but a few.
This series therefore addresses a broad audience of scholars that engage in the historical study of space in this sense, from the Early Middle Ages to the Recent Past in literature, art, in material culture, in scholarly and other discourses, from either cultural and contextual or more theoretical angles.
Spatial Imagination and Modernity in European Francophone Culture During the Long Nineteenth Century: Critical Interiority
1st Edition
Edited
By Dominique Bauer, Alexandre Dubois, Jill Cornish, Kathryn A. Haklin
June 22, 2026
This book explores the concept of critical interiority in literature, art, and architecture within European francophone culture, spanning the late eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. As a lived, imagined, or conceptualized interior space, critical interiority initially suggests a duality ...
Ephemeral Spectacles, Exhibition Spaces and Museums: 1750-1918
1st Edition
Edited
By Dominique Bauer, Camilla Murgia
December 01, 2025
This book examines ephemeral exhibitions from 1750 to 1918. In an era of acceleration and elusiveness, these transient spaces functioned as microcosms in which reality was shown, simulated, staged, imagined, experienced and known. They therefore had a dimension of spectacle to them, as the volume ...
Interpreting Urban Spaces in Italian Cultures
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrea Scapolo, Angela Porcarelli
December 01, 2025
Made up of both material and symbolic elements, the urban space is always dynamic and transitional; it brings together or separates the past and the present, the public and the private, the center and the periphery. The present volume focuses on the interaction between the social processes and ...
Marie-Antoinette’s Legacy: The Politics of French Garden Patronage and Picturesque Design, 1775-1867
1st Edition
By Susan Taylor-Leduc
December 01, 2025
Challenging the established historiography that frames the French picturesque garden movement as an international style, this book contends that the French picturesque gardens from 1775 until 1867 functioned as liminal zones at the epicenter of court patronage systems. Four French consorts—queen ...
The Home, Nations and Empires, and Ephemeral Exhibition Spaces: 1750-1918
1st Edition
Edited
By Dominique Bauer, Camilla Murgia
December 01, 2025
This book explores ephemeral exhibition spaces between 1750 and 1918. The chapters focus on two related spaces: the domestic interior and its imagery, and exhibitions and museums that display both national/imperial identity and the otherness that lurks beyond a country’s borders. What is revealed ...
The Origins of the Exhibition Space (1450-1750)
1st Edition
By Pamela Bianchi
December 01, 2025
Before the first purpose-designed exhibition spaces and painting exhibitions emerged, showing art was mainly related to the habit of dressing up spaces for political commemorations, religious festivals, and marketing strategies. Palaces, cloisters, façades, squares, and shops became temporary and ...
Space, Images, and Art Perception in Napoleonic Paris: Setting the Gaze
1st Edition
By Camilla Murgia
January 29, 2025
This book examines the impact of space on the perception of art and visual culture in early nineteenth-century Paris. It turns its attention to the way in which space determines the understanding and the development of visual culture. The abundance of images, their status, and their employment ...