1st Edition
Gender and Space in British Literature, 1660-1820
252 Pages
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Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
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Between 1660 and 1820, Great Britain experienced significant structural transformations in class, politics, economy, print, and writing that produced new and varied spaces and with them, new and reconfigured concepts of gender. In mapping the relationship between gender and space in British literature of the period, this collection defines, charts, and explores new cartographies, both geographic... Read more
Part 1 Outside; Chapter 1 Constructing Place in Oroonoko, Laura L.Runge; Chapter 2 Creole Space, AleksondraHultquist; Chapter 3 “Going Native”, AmbereenDadabhoy; Chapter 4 Margaret Bryan and Jane Marcet, KristineLarsen; Part 2 Borderlands; Chapter 5 The Space of British Exile in Frances Burney’s The Wanderer and Germaine de Staël’s Corinne, PamelaCheek; Chapter 6 “Ever restless waters”, ZoëKinsley; Chapter 7 Writing from the Road, CourtneyBeggs; Part 3 Inside; Chapter 8 New Models for the Literary Garden, MaryCrone-Romanovski; Chapter 9 Anne Finch’s Strategic Retreat into the Country House, Jeong-OhKim; Chapter 10 Masculinity, Space, and Late Seventeenth-Century Alchemical Practices, LauraMiller; Chapter 11 Invaded Spaces in Charlotte Smith’s The Banished Man (1794), Heather AnnLadd; Chapter 12 Seeking Shelter in Charlotte Smith’s Emmeline, Kathleen M.Oliver;
Biography
Mona Narain is Associate Professor of English and faculty affiliate in the Women’s Studies Program at Texas Christian University, USA, and Karen Gevirtz is Associate Professor of English and Co-Director of the Women and Gender Studies Program at Seton Hall University, USA.
’Comprised of a broad range of interdisciplinary essays that engage with primary eighteenth-century texts in new and absorbing ways, this collection offers readers new approaches for rethinking the shape of eighteenth-century space, culture, and literature.’ Sharon Harrow, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, USA
