The Cultural Construction of Hidden Spaces : : Essays on Pockets, Pouches and Secret Drawers / / edited by James Brown, Anna Jamieson, Naomi Segal.

• Superior document: Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024
• TeilnehmendeR: Brown, James,; Jamieson, Anna,; Segal, Naomi,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024.; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.; Spatial Practices ; 40
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (353 pages)

This essay collection focuses on enclosure, deception and secrecy in three spatial areas – the body, clothing and furniture. It contributes to the study of private life and explores the micro-history of hidden spaces. The contents of pockets may prove a surer index to their owner’s real thoughts than anything they say; a piece of furniture with ingenious mechanisms created to conceal secrets may also reveal someone’s attempts to break in and thus give away as much as it holds. Though the book’s focus is on particular material or imagined objects, taken as a whole it exemplifies a range of interdisciplinary encounters between history, literary criticism, art history, philosophy, psychoanalysis, sociology, criminology, archival studies, museology and curating, and women’s studies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1 -- Room of One’s Own: Bags, Pockets and Boxes -- 1 Pen and Pin Two Travel Journals and a Box, 6th January 1829 -- Miriam Al Jamil -- 2 The Hidden Container What Lies within the Bags of Female Characters in Children’s and Young-Adult Literature -- Felicia Boyages -- 3 ‘This Sack So Full’ Enslaved Women’s Use of Sacks in Antebellum America -- Kathleen B. Casey -- 4 Pockets of Affect/Containers of Feeling -- Ellen Sampson -- Part 2 -- Pockets and Transgression -- 5 The Shoplifter’s Pockets Unlawful Compartments in Womenswear, 1880–1920 -- Silvia Bombardini -- 6 ‘Catch Me If You Can’ A Study of the Power Politics of Indian Women’s Secret Pockets -- Rituparna Das -- 7 Erotic Pockets Fashion and the Fetishisation of Breastfeeding in Georgian Graphic Satire -- Katie Snow -- Part 3 -- Hidden Spaces, Magical and Supernatural -- 8 ‘A Mystery Whose Deepest Folds Were Gathered around the Dark Oak Cabinet’ Uncovering the Secrets of Phantastes -- Francesca Arnavas -- 9 Conjuring Clothing Gendered Pockets and Ephemeral Afterlives in Victorian Performance Magic -- Beatrice Ashton-Lelliott -- 10 Glove Magic -- Anne Green -- 11 An Exploration of Ghost Doors and Ghost Spaces in Haunted-House Literature -- Cristiana Pugliese -- Part 4 -- Systems of Identity -- 12 Foundling Tokens The Necessity of Secrecy and Exposure -- Janette Bright -- 13 Inside the Drawers of the Ellis Island Immigration Station -- Marija Dalbello -- 14 The Secreted Self Modern Selfhood and the Pocket Schema in Contemporary Design -- Samuel Talcott -- Part 5 -- Artefacts: the Production of Hidden Space -- 15 Buried Memoirs and Hidden Holographs in James Hogg and Margaret Atwood -- Victoria Reid -- 16 ‘Buried in Drawers, Sealed Bags, Boxes’ Pierre Loti’s Testimonies of a Doubtful Life -- Gaultier Roux -- 17 From Kernel to Shell Louise Bourgeois’s Lairs -- Lynn M. Somers -- Part 6 -- Hidden Space as Literary Trope -- 18 What Secrets Hide inside Maupassant’s Drawers? Nostalgia, Necrophilia and Suicide -- Céline Brossillon -- 19 Pejorative Pockets from Shakespeare to Austen -- 20 What Jean Échenoz Knew Pockets and Postcritique in 1980s France -- Alexandru Matei -- Part 7 -- Appendix -- 21 ‘Thinking in Metal, Thinking in Wood’ Regimes and Technologies of Secrecy -- Carolyn Sargentson -- Index.