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Mapping British Women Writers’ Urban Imaginaries

Space, Self and Spirituality

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  • © 2015

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Authors:
  1. Arina Cirstea

    1. Coventry University, UK

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Prologue

    • Arina Cirstea
    Pages 1-16

  3. Women’s Urban Modernity: Brontë, Gaskell and Woolf

    • Arina Cirstea
    Pages 17-31

  4. The Psychic Spaces of Michèle Roberts’ Paper City

    • Arina Cirstea
    Pages 32-67

  5. Cartographies of Identity in Maitland’s Three Times Table and Lessing’s London Observed

    • Arina Cirstea
    Pages 68-118

  6. The ‘Terror of This City’: Re-mapping The Golden Notebook

    • Arina Cirstea
    Pages 119-142

  7. De Imitatione Mariae and the New Daughters of London

    • Arina Cirstea
    Pages 143-167

  8. Unnerving the Secular Imagination: Spatial Politics in Lessing’s Sufi Utopia

    • Arina Cirstea
    Pages 168-200

  9. Epilogue — Revising Urban Geography

    • Arina Cirstea
    Pages 201-203

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 204-227
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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.

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  • Coventry University, UK

    Arina Cirstea

About the author

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).
 

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