Robinson Crusoe's cave - Fanny's room - Charles Dickens and the Victorian addiction to dwelling - The smell and spell of "things" in Henry James's The spoils of Poynton - Virginia Woolf and the passing of Victorian domesticity - Bourgeois memory and dream in the domestic interiors of Ingmar Bergman - Conclusion : John Updike, W.G. Sebald, and the afterlife of the bourgeoisie.