The Cultural Construction of Hidden Spaces: Essays on Pockets, Pouches and Secret Drawers (Spatial Practices, 40)

This interdisciplinary collection focuses on enclosure, deception and secrecy in three spatial areas – the body, clothing and furniture. It contributes to the study of private life and explores the micro-history of hidden spaces as an extension or projection of the self. Front Cover Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgments Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction Part 1 Room of One’s Own: Bags, Pockets and Boxes Chapter 1 Pen and Pin: Two Travel Journals and a Box, 6th January 1829 Works Cited Chapter 2 The Hidden Container: What Lies Within the Bags of Female Characters in Children’s and Young-Adult Literature Works Cited Chapter 3 ‘This Sack So Full’: Enslaved Women’s Use of Sacks in Antebellum America Works Cited Chapter 4 Pockets of Affect/Containers of Feeling Works Cited Part 2 Pockets and Transgression Chapter 5 The Shoplifter’s Pockets: Unlawful Compartments in Womenswear, 1880–1920 Acknowledgments Works Cited Chapter 6 ‘Catch Me If You Can’: A Study of the Power Politics of Indian Women’s Secret Pockets Works Cited Chapter 7 Erotic Pockets: Fashion and the Fetishisation of Breastfeeding in Georgian Graphic Satire Works Cited Part 3 Hidden Spaces, Magical and Supernatural Chapter 8 ‘A Mystery Whose Deepest Folds Were Gathered around the Dark Oak Cabinet’: Uncovering the Secrets of Phantastes Acknowledgments Works Cited Chapter 9 Conjuring Clothing: Gendered Pockets and Ephemeral Afterlives in Victorian Performance Magic Works Cited Chapter 10 Glove Magic Works Cited Chapter 11 An Exploration of Ghost Doors and Ghost Spaces in Haunted-House Literature Works Cited Part 4 Systems of Identity Chapter 12 Foundling Tokens: The Necessity of Secrecy and Exposure Works Cited Chapter 13 Inside the Drawers of the Ellis Island Immigration Station Acknowledgment Works Cited Chapter 14 The Secreted Self: Modern Selfhood and the Pocket Schema in Contemporary Design Acknowledgments Works Cited Part 5 Artefacts: the Production of Hidden Space Chapter 15 Buried Memoirs and Hidden Holographs in James Hogg and Margaret Atwood Works Cited Chapter 16 ‘Buried in Drawers, Sealed Bags, Boxes’: Pierre Loti’s Testimonies of a Doubtful Life Works Cited Chapter 17 From Kernel to Shell: Louise Bourgeois’s Lairs Works Cited Part 6 Hidden Space as Literary Trope Chapter 18 What Secrets Hide Inside Maupassant’s Drawers?: Nostalgia, Necrophilia and Suicide Works Cited Chapter 19 Pejorative Pockets from Shakespeare to Austen Works Cited Chapter 20 What Jean Échenoz Knew: Pockets and Postcritique in 1980s France Works Cited Part 7 Appendix Chapter 21 ‘Thinking in Metal, Thinking in Wood’: Regimes and Technologies of Secrecy Works Cited Index Back Cover "This essay collection focuses on enclosure, deception and secrecy in three spatial areas - the body, clothing and furniture. It contributes to the study of private life and explores the micro-history of hidden spaces. The contents of pockets may prove a surer index to their owner's real thoughts than anything they say; a piece of furniture with ingenious mechanisms created to conceal secrets may also reveal someone's attempts to break in and thus give away as much as it holds. Though the book's focus is on particular material or imagined objects, taken as a whole it exemplifies a range of interdisciplinary encounters between history, literary criticism, art history, philosophy, psychoanalysis, sociology, criminology, archival studies, museology and curating, and women's studies"-- Provided by publisher