Introduction: Spaces of Belgian Culture between the Public and the Private, the Self and the Other (c. 1850-c. 1920) Van Damme, Sterckx and Bauer Spaces of Public Culture - Attraction and Education 1. A Garden with A View: Visual Culture at the Antwerp Zoo Leen Engelen 2. Enlightened Spaces: Public Lecturing, the Projection Lantern and Society Life in Fin-de-siècle Belgium, c. 1900 - c. 1920 Margo Buelens-Terryn, Doris Blancquaert, and Ilja Van Damme 3. Staging a Poet's Misery: Settings and Supporting Actors of Charles Baudelaire's Stay in Belgium (1864-1866) Tom Verschaffel 4.

Down the Rabbit Hole: The Hidden Spaces of Le Diable au Corps in Brussels (1892- 1898) Evelien Jonckheere and Davy Depelchin Spaces of Private Culture - Intimacy and Memory 5. Bonheur & Douleur: Alfred Stevens and the Ambivalent Depiction of Mothers in Domestic Settings Apolline Malevez and Marjan Sterckx 6. Representation of Fin-de-siècle Belgian Queer Spaces in Georges Eekhoud's Short Stories Michael Rosenfeld 7. Memory Space and Modern Temporality: Fernand Khnopff's Artist's Studio in Light of Rodenbach and Huysmans Dominique Bauer 8. Ensor's Souvenirs: Objects and their Meanings in the Artist's Late Still Lifes Apolline Malevez Spaces of Belgian Sociability - Identities and Nations 9. Musealisation and Meaning Making in the Studio of Constantin Meunier Ulrike Müller 10. The Private Interior as Exhibition Space: The Catalogues of the 1880 National Exhibition in Brussels and Jules-Jacques Van Ysendyck (1836-1891) Zsuzsanna Böröcz 11. Exporting National Identity Abroad? The Neo-Flemish Renaissance Castle in Beijing (1902-1909) as an Instrument of Communication and Legitimation Charlotte Rottiers 12.

Belgian Space in Exile in Interwar Britain in Interwar Britain: The Anglo-Belgian Union and its "Friendly Competition" with the Anglo-Batavian Society Ulrich Tiedau 13. Domestic Untranslatability: The Idea of the Colonizer's House in Colonial Indonesia and Congo at the Turn of the Century Paoletta Holst, Johan Lagae and David Hutama Setiadi Epilogue Laurence Brogniez and Tatiana Debroux.