The Glass Room: Housing space, time and history
Tereza Topolovská
Charles University, Prague, Czech RepublicTereza Topolovská is a lecturer at the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Education, Charles University. Her research focuses on the study of spatial poetics of contemporary British literature. Her other academic interests include the study of phenomenology of perception, especially in the connection with the depiction of architecture in literature. She has participated in international conferences and published articles on Simon Mawer, E.M. Forster, Iris Murdoch, and J.G. Ballard in academic journals and essay collections abroad and in the Czech Republic. She is the author of the monograph The Country House Revisited: Variations on a Theme from Forster to Hollinghurst (2017).
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2917-3135
Abstract
Tereza Topolovská is a lecturer at the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Education, Charles University. Her research focuses on the study of spatial poetics of contemporary British literature. Her other academic interests include the study of phenomenology of perception, especially in the connection with the depiction of architecture in literature. She has participated in international conferences and published articles on Simon Mawer, E.M. Forster, Iris Murdoch, and J.G. Ballard in academic journals and essay collections abroad and in the Czech Republic. She is the author of the monograph The Country House Revisited: Variations on a Theme from Forster to Hollinghurst (2017).
Keywords:
The Glass Room, Simon Mawer, architecture in literature, Modernist architecture in literature, historical fiction, neo-historical fictionReferences
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Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Tereza Topolovská is a lecturer at the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Education, Charles University. Her research focuses on the study of spatial poetics of contemporary British literature. Her other academic interests include the study of phenomenology of perception, especially in the connection with the depiction of architecture in literature. She has participated in international conferences and published articles on Simon Mawer, E.M. Forster, Iris Murdoch, and J.G. Ballard in academic journals and essay collections abroad and in the Czech Republic. She is the author of the monograph The Country House Revisited: Variations on a Theme from Forster to Hollinghurst (2017).
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2917-3135
