Spatial Practices: An Interdisciplinary Series in Cultural History, Geography and Literature, Volume 4 : Inside Out : Women Negotiating, Subverting, Appropriating Public and Private Space

Annotation. The incursions of women into areas from which they had been traditionally excluded, together with the literary representations of their attempts to negotiate, subvert and appropriate these forbidden spaces, is the underlying theme that unites this collection of essays. Here scholars from Australia, Greece, Great Britain, Spain, Switzerland and the United States reconsider the well-entrenched assumptions associated with the public/private distinction, working with the notions of public and private spheres while testing their currency and exploring their blurred edges. The essays cover and uncover a rich variety of spaces, from the slums and court-rooms of London to the American wilderness, from the Victorian drawing-room and sick-room to out of the ordinary places like Turkish baths and the trenches of the First World War. Where previous studies have tended to focus on a single aspect of women¿s engagement with space, this edited book reveals a plethora of subtle and tenacious strategies found in a variety of discourses that include fiction, poetry, diaries, letters, essays and journalism. Inside Out goes beyond the early work on artistic explorations of gendered space to explore the breadth of the field and its theoretical implications Content: Early escapes into public spaces -- Falling over the banister : Harriet Martineau and the uneasy escape from the private / Lucy Bending -- Private rituals and public selves : the Turkish bath in women's travel writing / Efterpi Mitsi -- Ladies on the tramp : the philanthropic flaneuse and appropriations of Victorian London's impoverished domesticity / Cathleen J. Hamann -- Women on display -- "The abuse of visibility" : domestic publicity in late Victorian fiction / Anna Despotopoulou -- Public space and spectacle : female bodies and consumerism in Edith Wharton's The house of mirth / Ann-Marie Evans -- Tracing the female triptych of space : private, public, and power strongholds in Gertrude Atherton's Patience Sparhawk and her times and F. Tennyson Jesse's A pin to see the peepshow / Janet Stobbs -- Approaching the city -- Paving the way for Mrs Dalloway : the street-walking women of Eliza Lynn Linton, Ella Hepworth Dixon and George Paston / Valerie Fehlbaum -- Dwelling, poaching, dreaming : housebreaking and homemaking in Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage / Melinda Harvey -- Colonial flaneurs : the London life-writing of Janet Frame and Doris Lessing / Ma Lourdes Lopez Ropero -- Conquering the spaces of war -- In a literary no man's land : a spatial reading of Edith Wharton's Fighting France / Teresa Gomez Reus and Peter Lauber -- Women and war zones : May Sinclair's personal negotiation with the First World War / Laurel Forster -- Expanding the private and public spaces of war : Vera Brittain's Testament of youth / Aranzazu Usandizaga -- Transformations in nature -- Friends of our captivity : nature, terror and refugia in romantic women's literature / Stephen E. Hunt -- Public land and private fears : reclaiming outdoor spaces in Gretchen Legler's Sportswoman's notebook / Lilace Mellin Guignard -- Negotiating the city -- Adrienne Rich's city poetry : locating a glaneuse / Kristen Bartholomew Ortega -- Writing inside and outside : Eavan Boland's poetry of the domestic space / Sara Sullivan. Contents 8 Notes on Contributors 12 Acknowledgements 16 Foreword 18 Introduction 22 Early Escapes into Public Spaces 36 Falling Over the Banister: Harriet Martineau and the Uneasy Escape from the Private 38 Private Rituals and Public Selves: The Turkish Bath in Women’s Travel Writing 50 Ladies on the Tramp: The Philanthropic Flâneuse and Appropriations of Victorian London’s Impoverished Domesticity 68 Women on Display 88 “The Abuse of Visibility”: Domestic Publicity in Late Victorian Fiction 90 Public Space and Spectacle: Female Bodies and Consumerism in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth 110 Tracing the Female Triptych of Space: Private, Public, and Power Strongholds in Gertrude Atherton’s Patience Sparhawk and Her Times (1897), and F. Tennyson Jesse’s A Pin to See the Peepshow (1934) 128 Approaching the City 150 Paving the Way for Mrs Dalloway: The Street-walking Women of Eliza Lynn Linton, Ella Hepworth Dixon and George Paston 152 Dwelling, Poaching, Dreaming: Housebreaking and Homemaking in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage 170 Colonial Flâneurs: the London Life-writing of Janet Frame and Doris Lessing 192 Index 362 Device=ApogeeA4,Resolution=3600dpi,PageSize=A4,PrepsScreening=value Ed. By Teresa Gómez Reus And Aránzazu Usandizaga. Met Index.