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 of space. As Pohl's primary aim is to demonstrate how women writers explore the complex (gender) politics of space, specific ...
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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 of space. As Pohl's primary aim is to demonstrate how women writers explore the complex (gender) politics of space, specific attention is given to spaces that feature widely in contemporary utopian imagination: Arcadia, the palace, the convent, the harem and the country house. The early modern writers Lady Mary Wroth and Margaret Cavendish seek to recreate Paradise in their versions of Eden and Jerusalem; the one yearns for Arcadia, the other for Solomon's Temple. Margaret Cavendish and Mary Astell redefine the convent as an emancipatory space, dismissing its symbolic meaning as a confining and surveilled architecture. The utopia of the country house in the work of Delarivier Manley, Sarah Scott and Mary Hamilton will reveal how women writers resignify the traditional metonym of the country estate. The study will finish with an investigation of Oriental tales and travel writing by Ellis Cornelia Knight, Lady Mary Montagu, Elizabeth Craven and Lady Hester Stanhope who unveil the seraglio as a location for a Western, specifically masculine discourse on Orientalism, despotism and female sexuality and offers their own utopian judgment.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 200 p. Contains: Illustrations. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2005011860 Type of material Book Personal name Pohl, Nicole, 1961-Main title Women, space and utopia, 1600-1800 / Nicole Pohl. Published/Created Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, c2006. Description 200 p. : ill.; 23 cm. ISBN 0754652572 (alk. paper) LC classification PR113. P64 2006 LC Subjects English literature--Women authors--History and criticism. English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism. Women and literature--Great Britain--History--17th century. Women and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century. English literature--18th century--History and criticism. Place (Philosophy) in literature. Space and time in literature. Personal space in literature. Country homes in literature. Sex role in literature. Utopias in literature. Setting (Literature) Women in literature. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-193) and index. Series Women and gender in the early modern world Dewey class no. 820.9/9287/09032 Geographic area code e-uk---National bib no. GBA612724 National bib agency no. 013375738 Other system no. (OCoLC)ocm59879462
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 550grams, ISBN: 9780754652571.
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New. A study of women's utopian spatial imagination in the 17th and 18th centuries, this book explores the correlation between identity and social space. The investigation is driven by conceptual questions, and seeks to link theoretical debates about space, gender and utopianism to historiographic debates about the social production of space. Series Editor(s): Poska, Professor Allyson M.; Zanger, Professor Abby. Series: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Num Pages: 208 pages, Includes 5 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 430. 2006. 1st Edition. hardcover.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.