Inside out : women negotiating, subverting, appropriating public and private space / edited by Teresa Gomez Reus and Aranzazu Usandizaga.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gómez Reus, Teresa.

Usandizaga, Aránzazu.

Series:

Spatial practices ; 4.

Spatial practices, 1871-689X ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in literature.

Feminism in literature.

Cultural landscapes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (367 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2008.

Language Note:

English

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 uncover a rich variety of spaces, from the slums and court-rooms of London to the American wilderness, from the Victorian drawing-room and sick-room to out of the ordinary places like Turkish baths and the trenches of the First World War. Where previous studies have tended to focus on a single aspect of women’s engagement with space, this edited book reveals a plethora of subtle and tenacious strategies found in a variety of discourses that include fiction, poetry, diaries, letters, essays and journalism. Inside Out goes beyond the early work on artistic explorations of gendered space to explore the breadth of the field and its theoretical implications.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword / Janet Wolff

Introduction / Teresa Gómez Reus and Aránzazu Usandizaga

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 Flâneuse and Appropriations of Victorian London’s Impoverished Domesticity / Cathleen J. Hamann

“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 / Anne-Marie Evans

Tracing the Female Triptych of Space: Private, Public, and Power Strongholds in Gertrude Atherton’s Patience Sparhawk and Her Times (1897), and F. Tennyson Jesse’s A Pin to See the Peepshow (1934) / Janet Stobbs

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 Flâneurs: the London Life-writing of Janet Frame and Doris Lessing / Mª Lourdes López Ropero

In a Literary No Man’s Land: A Spatial Reading of Edith Wharton’s Fighting France / Teresa Gómez 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 / Aránzazu Usandizaga

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

Adrienne Rich’s City Poetry: Locating a Flâneuse / Kirsten Bartholomew Ortega

Writing Inside and Outside: Eavan Boland’s Poetry of the Domestic Space / Sara Sullivan

Concluding remarks / Janet Floyd

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

94-012-0617-1

1-4356-7770-6

OCLC:

277004568

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401206174 DOI