The Cultural Construction of Hidden Spaces : : Essays on Pockets, Pouches and Secret Drawers /

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

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 tha...

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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)
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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.

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