Mapping British Women Writers’ Urban Imaginaries [electronic resource] : Space, Self and Spirituality /
Cirstea, Arina.author.
This study provides an alternative to the postmodern tradition of writing about the city by exploring spatialized constructions of gender and spiritual identity through an integrative framework based on insights from Bachelard's topoanalysis, psychogeography, feminist cultural theory and comparative literature and religion.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Prologue: Mapping the Urban Imaginary; 1 Women's Urban Modernity: Brontë, Gaskell and Woolf; 2 The Psychic Spaces of Michèle Roberts' Paper City; 3 Cartographies of Identity in Maitland's Three Times Table and Lessing's London Observed; 4 The 'Terror of This City': Re-mapping The Golden Notebook; 5 De Imitatione Mariae and the New Daughters of London; 6 Unnerving the Secular Imagination: Spatial Politics in Lessing's Sufi Utopia; Epilogue - Revising Urban Geography; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This study provides an alternative to the postmodern tradition of writing about the city by exploring spatialized constructions of gender and spiritual identity through an integrative framework based on insights from Bachelard's topoanalysis, psychogeography, feminist cultural theory and comparative literature and religion.
Sociology.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
British literature.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Spirituality.
Gender Studies.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Spirituality.