| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 239 pages .) |
| Series |
British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century |
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British literature in context in the long eighteenth century.
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Outside; 1 Constructing Place in Oroonoko; 2 Creole Space: Jamaica, Fallen Women, and British Literature; 3 "Going Native": Geography, Gender, and Identity in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Turkish Embassy Letters; 4 Margaret Bryan and Jane Marcet: Making Space for "Space" in British Women's Science Writing; Part II Borderlands; 5 The Space of British Exile in Frances Burney's The Wanderer and Germaine de Staël's Corinne |
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6 "Ever restless waters": Female Identity and Coastal Space in Charlotte Smith's The Young Philosopher7 Writing from the Road: Space and the Spectacle of Hortense Mancini, Duchess of Mazarin; Part III Inside; 8 New Models for the Literary Garden: Women's Amatory Novels of the 1720s; 9 Anne Finch's Strategic Retreat into the Country House; 10 Masculinity, Space, and Late Seventeenth-Century Alchemical Practices; 11 Invaded Spaces in Charlotte Smith's The Banished Man (1794); 12 Seeking Shelter in Charlotte Smith's Emmeline; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Mapping the relationship between gender and space in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British literature, this collection explores new cartographies, both geographic and figurative. In addition to incisive analyses of specific works, a group of essays on Charlotte Smith's novels and a group of essays on natural philosophy offer case studies for exploring issues of gender and space within larger fields, such as an author's oeuvre or a discourse |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English literature -- History and criticism.
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Space and time in literature.
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Gender identity in literature.
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Personal space in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English literature
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Gender identity in literature
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Personal space in literature
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Space and time in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Narain, Mona, editor
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Gevirtz, Karen Bloom, 1969- editor.
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| ISBN |
1472415094 |
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9781472415097 |
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