Arina Cirstea

Mapping British Women Writers' Urban Imaginaries

Space, Self and Spirituality

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-53090-5
• 1st ed. 2015
• Seitenzahl: 227
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 389g
• ISBN-13: 9781137530905
• ISBN-10: 1137530901
• Artikelnr.: 42953436

Autorenporträt

Arina Cirstea teaches at Coventry University's Centre for Academic Writing and has previously taught English Literature at the University of Warwick, UK. She publishes on women's writing, literature and religion; her most recent essay is 'Joy, Doubt and Wonder: Contemporary Readings of the Annunciation' in Reading the Abrahamic Faiths (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Mapping the Urban Imaginary: Contemporary Developments in Urban
Hermeneutics and the Psychoanalysis of Space 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 Works Cited Index