208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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The first full length study of women's utopian spatial imagination in the seventeenth and eigtheenth centuries, this book explores the sophisticated correlation between identity and social space. The investigation is mainly driven by conceptual questions and thus seeks to link theoretical debates about space, gender and utopianism to historiographic debates about the (gendered) social production... Read more
Contents: Introduction; The architecture of paradise: Eden and Jerusalem; 'An emblem of themselves': the country house as Utopia; 'In this sacred space': convents and academies; Fatima's house: oriental voyage Utopias; Afterword; Works cited; Index.
Biography
Nicole Pohl is Lecturer in English in the School of Cultural Studies, University College Northampton, UK.
'Women, Space, and Utopia, 1600-1800 is a superbly researched, compelling account of the ways ideas about architecture, planning, and geography simultaneously influenced the construction of gender and stimulated the utopian imagination in a period engrossed with social norms and reforms. A fascinating, ambitious, and original study.' Alessa Johns, Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Davis and author of Women's Utopias of the Eighteenth Century 'The book takes a fresh and innovative approach to a well-traversed topic... the book is an original and stimulating reading of a hitherto-ignored generic aspect of women's writing.' Renaissance Quarterly
