Gender And Space In British Literature 1660 1820 Edited By Mona Narain And Karen Gevirtz British Literature In Context In The Long Eighteenth Century By Mona Narain 2014 02 01Gender And Space In British Literature 1660 1820 Edited By Mona Narain And Karen Gevirtz British Literature In Context In The Long Eighteenth Century By Mona Narain 2014 02 01

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Travel narratives, picaresque novels, and even the new fashion for carriage rides become case studies. How did a woman’s mobility differ from a man’s? What happened when female characters ventured outside the domestic sphere in novels by Aphra Behn or Daniel Defoe? The essays argue that literal movement (or confinement) is a powerful metaphor for social agency.

That idea—that space is gendered, and gender is spatialized—is the driving engine of the 2014 collection , edited by Mona Narain and Karen Gevirtz . Part of the British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century series, this volume offers a crucial intervention for students and scholars alike. What the Book Argues The central thesis is deceptively simple: Space is never neutral. Narain and Gevirtz bring together essays that examine how shifting definitions of public and private, urban and rural, domestic and foreign, directly influenced—and were influenced by—changing ideas about masculinity, femininity, and sexuality. Travel narratives, picaresque novels, and even the new

A deep dive into Gender and Space in British Literature, 1660–1820 , edited by Mona Narain and Karen Gevirtz. The essays argue that literal movement (or confinement)