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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
'Wendy Gan's monograph explores how early twentieth-century representations of female privacy encourage a rethinking of modernity. Among the literary texts examined are novels by Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Walker and F. Tennyson Jesse. Gan argues that whilst the autonomy of the modern subject is often presented as predicated on emphatic intervention in the public sphere, this elides the importance to the process o cultural production of the women who did not or could not leave the domestic environment. To redress the balance, focus is shifted from male flanerie to a variety of interiors. Gan demonstrates how the privacy of physical spaces, such as those provided by the rented room and the motorcar, and psycholgical retreats, such as those opened up by novels that posited alternative versions of feminine identity in the pre-modern models of the witch and the primitive...' - Routledge ABES June 20 1 1
Authors and Affiliations
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School of English, University of Hong Kong, China
Wendy Gan
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Women, Privacy and Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century British Writing
Authors: Wendy Gan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230232716
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-53585-5Published: 15 January 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-23271-6Published: 15 January 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 182
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Gender Studies, Fiction, Twentieth-Century Literature