Mapping British Women Writers’ Urban Imaginaries : Space, Self and Spirituality

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. "Cover"--"Contents"--"Acknowledgements" -- "Prologue: Mapping the Urban Imaginary" -- "1 Womenâ#x80;#x99;s Urban Modernity: Brontñ, Gaskell and Woolf" -- "2 The Psychic Spaces of Mich÷le Robertsâ#x80;#x99; Paper City" -- "3 Cartographies of Identity in Maitlandâ#x80;#x99;s Three Times Table and Lessingâ#x80;#x99;s London Observed" -- "4 The â#x80;#x98;Terror of This Cityâ#x80;#x99;: Re-mapping The Golden Notebook" -- "5 De Imitatione Mariae and the New Daughters of London" -- "6 Unnerving the Secular Imagination: Spatial Politics in Lessingâ#x80;#x99;s Sufi Utopia" -- "Epilogue â#x80;#x93; Revising Urban Geography" -- "Notes" -- "Works Cited." Front Matter....Pages i-viii Prologue....Pages 1-16 Women’s Urban Modernity: Brontë, Gaskell and Woolf....Pages 17-31 The Psychic Spaces of Michèle Roberts’ Paper City....Pages 32-67 Cartographies of Identity in Maitland’s Three Times Table and Lessing’s London Observed ....Pages 68-118 The ‘Terror of This City’: Re-mapping The Golden Notebook....Pages 119-142 De Imitatione Mariae and the New Daughters of London....Pages 143-167 Unnerving the Secular Imagination: Spatial Politics in Lessing’s Sufi Utopia....Pages 168-200 Epilogue — Revising Urban Geography....Pages 201-203 Back Matter....Pages 204-227 Prologue : Mapping The Urban Imaginary -- Women's Urban Modernity : Brontë, Gaskell And Woolf -- The Psychic Spaces Of Michèle Roberts' Paper City -- Cartographies Of Identity In Maitland's Three Times Table And Lessing's London Observed -- The 'terror Of This City' : Re-mapping The Golden Notebook -- De Imitatione Mariae And The New Daughters Of London -- Unnerving The Secular Imagination : Spatial Politics In Lessing's Sufi Utopia -- Epilogue : Revising Urban Geography. Arina Cirstea, Coventry University, Uk. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 212-221) And Index.