| Description |
1 online resource (364 pages). |
| Series |
Spatial practices, 1871-689X ; 4 |
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Spatial practices ; 4.
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| Note |
Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Early escapes into public spaces -- Falling over the banister : Harriet Martineau and the uneasy escape from the private / Lucy Bending -- Private rituals and public selves : the Turkish bath in women's travel writing / Efterpi Mitsi -- Ladies on the tramp : the philanthropic flaneuse and appropriations of Victorian London's impoverished domesticity / Cathleen J. Hamann -- Women on display -- "The abuse of visibility" : domestic publicity in late Victorian fiction / Anna Despotopoulou -- Public space and spectacle : female bodies and consumerism in Edith Wharton's The house of mirth / Ann-Marie Evans -- Tracing the female triptych of space : private, public, and power strongholds in Gertrude Atherton's Patience Sparhawk and her times and F. Tennyson Jesse's A pin to see the peepshow / Janet Stobbs -- Approaching the city -- Paving the way for Mrs Dalloway : the street-walking women of Eliza Lynn Linton, Ella Hepworth Dixon and George Paston / Valerie Fehlbaum -- Dwelling, poaching, dreaming : housebreaking and homemaking in Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage / Melinda Harvey -- Colonial flaneurs : the London life-writing of Janet Frame and Doris Lessing / Ma Lourdes Lopez Ropero -- Conquering the spaces of war -- In a literary no man's land : a spatial reading of Edith Wharton's Fighting France / Teresa Gomez Reus and Peter Lauber -- Women and war zones : May Sinclair's personal negotiation with the First World War / Laurel Forster -- Expanding the private and public spaces of war : Vera Brittain's Testament of youth / Aranzazu Usandizaga -- Transformations in nature -- Friends of our captivity : nature, terror and refugia in romantic women's literature / Stephen E. Hunt -- Public land and private fears : reclaiming outdoor spaces in Gretchen Legler's Sportswoman's notebook / Lilace Mellin Guignard -- Negotiating the city -- Adrienne Rich's city poetry : locating a glaneuse / Kristen Bartholomew Ortega -- Writing inside and outside : Eavan Boland's poetry of the domestic space / Sara Sullivan. |
| Summary |
The incursions of women into areas from which they had been traditionally excluded, together with the literary representations of their attempts to negotiate, subvert and appropriate these forbidden spaces, is the underlying theme that unites this collection of essays. Here scholars from Australia, Greece, Great Britain, Spain, Switzerland and the United States reconsider the well-entrenched assumptions associated with the public/private distinction, working with the notions of public and private spheres while testing their currency and exploring their blurred edges. The essays cover and uncov. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Women in literature.
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Social sciences.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Women in literature. (OCoLC)fst01177912
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| Added Author |
Gómez Reus, Teresa.
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Usandizaga, Aránzazu.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Inside out. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2008 9789042024410 9042024410 (OCoLC)259701510 |
| ISBN |
9781435677708 (electronic bk.) |
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1435677706 (electronic bk.) |
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