In particular, I will discuss the importance both writers attributed to the domestic interior as the most congenial scenario in which the essayistic act should be performed.
This article aims to reflect on the spatial dimension of the English Romantic familiar essay as exemplified by the writings of Leigh Hunt and Charles Lamb. The house of the essayists has always been a place to which their readers were granted a special right of entry. Spectator, retaining an undeniable conjunction to the lodgings of its author. After many centuries, the form has passed through many other rooms, such as Robert Burton’s and Sir Thomas Browne’s libraries or the apartments of Sir Isaac Bickerstaff and Mr. The history of the essay as a genre notoriously began in a very peculiar room: the library of Michel de Montaigne’s estate near Bordeaux.
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