Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Meaning in Architecture and Literature -- 1. An End to Dwelling: Architectural and Literary Modernisms -- 2. Demonic Spaces: Sade, Dickens, Kafka -- 3. Allegories of the Gothic in the Long Nineteenth Century -- 4. Figures of Ruin and Restoration: Ruskin and Viollet-le-Duc -- 5. Proust's Interior Venice -- 6. Monumental Displacement in Ulysses -- 7. Architecture in Frost and Stevens -- 8. Annals of Junkspace: Architectural Disaffection in Contemporary Literature -- Postface: Covered Ground -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.