Inside out : women negotiating, subverting, appropriating public and private space /

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

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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,...

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Superior document:Spatial practices, 4
TeilnehmendeR:
Gómez Reus, Teresa.
Usandizaga, Aránzazu.
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Spatial practices ; 4.
Physical Description:1 online resource (367 p.)
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of 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.

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