A Space of Their Own by Baker, Katie; Walker, Naomi;

Rövid leírás:

A Space of Their Own explores how nineteenth and twentieth-century women writers incorporated the idea of ‘place’ into their writing.

Hosszú leírás:

This collection explores how nineteenth and twentieth-century women writers incorporated the idea of ‘place’ into their writing. Whether writing from a specific location or focusing upon a particular geographical or imaginary place, women writers working between 1850 and 1950 valued ‘a space of their own’ in which to work. The period on which this collection focuses straddles two main areas of study, nineteenth century writing and early twentieth century/modernist writing, so it enables discussion of how ideas of space progressed alongside changes in styles of writing. It looks to the many ways women writers explored concepts of space and place and how they expressed these through their writings, for example how they interpreted both urban and rural landscapes and how they presented domestic spaces.

A Space of Their Own will be of interest to those studying Victorian literature and modernist works as it covers a period of immense change for women’s rights in society. It is also not limited to just one type or definition of ‘space’. Therefore, it may also be of interest to academics outside of literature – for example, in gender studies, cultural geography, place writing and digital humanities.

Tartalomjegyzék:

Introduction – Dr. Katie Baker and Dr. Naomi Walker

Chapter 1 – ‘It is home, and I can’t put its charm into words’ (Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South): Radically Extending Domesticity in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South

Dr. Katie Baker

Chapter 2 – ‘The Room I sit in’: Women’s Refashioning of the Drawing-Room in Fin-de-Siècle and Modernist Writing

Dr. Emma Liggins

Chapter 3 – ‘Fleece in the hedge’: Domesticity and Depiction among Women Writers of the Interwar Years

Dr. Geraldine Perriam

Chapter 4 – Mountains, Therapy and the Peripatetic Writing Space: Elizabeth le Blond in France and Switzerland in the 1880s

Dr. Kathryn Walchester

Chapter 5 – Walking and Writing the Rural: Mary Webb and the Shropshire Landscape

Dr. Naomi Walker

Chapter 6 – Spangin’ and Stravaiging: Scottish Women Writers and the Nature of Rural Modernity

Helena Duncan

Chapter 7 – ‘There’s London!’: Spatial affects and urban environments in Ella Hepworth Dixon’s The Story of a Modern Woman

Cigdem Talu

Chapter 8 – Utopian spaces, public places: considering the perils and pleasures of crossing domestic thresholds in The Woman’s Side and The More I See of Men

Dr. Louise McDonald

Chapter 9 – ‘Solitude in any wide scene impressed her with an undefined feeling of immeasurable existence aloof from her’ (George Eliot, Daniel Deronda): Lyric Space in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing.

Professor Josie Billington

Chapter 10 – R. A. Kartini and the Many Faces of Colonial Female Subject: Domestic Cosmopolitanism in Colonial Indonesia

Dr. Silvia Mayasari-Hoffert

Chapter 11 – Spatial and Sensory Aesthetics in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando (1928)

Annie Strausa

Conclusion – Dr. Katie Baker and Dr. Naomi Walker