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Inside Out Spatial Practices An Interdisciplinary Series in Cultural History, Geography and 4 Literature General Editors: Robert Burden (University of Teesside) Stephan Kohl (Universität Würzburg) Editorial Board: Christine Berberich Christoph Ehland Catrin Gersdorf Jan Hewitt Ralph Pordzik Chris Thurgar-Dawson Merle Tönnies Inside Out Women negotiating, subverting, appropriating public and private space Edited by Teresa Gómez Reus and Aránzazu Usandizaga Amsterdam - New York, NY 2008 © Estate of Gwen John. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2008 Cover Design: Aart Jan Bergshoeff The paper on which this book is printed meets the requirements of “ISO 9706:1994, Information and documentation - Paper for documents - Requirements for permanence”. ISSN: 1871-689X ISBN: 978-90-420-2441-0 ©Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam - New York, NY 2008 Printed in the Netherlands The Spatial Practices Series The series Spatial Practices belongs to the topographical turn in cultural studies and aims to publish new work in the study of spaces and places which have been appropriated for cultural meanings: symbolic landscapes and urban places which have specific cultural meanings that construct, maintain, and circulate myths of a unified na- tional or regional culture and their histories, or whose visible ironies deconstruct those myths. Taking up the lessons of the new cultural geography, papers are invited which attempt to build bridges between the disciplines of cultural history, literary and cultural studies, and geography. Spatial Practices aims to promote a new interdisciplinary kind of cultural history drawing on constructivist approaches to questions of culture and identity that insist that cultural “realities” are the effect of discourses, but also that cultural objects and their histories and geographies are read as texts, with formal and generic rules, tropes and topographies. Robert Burden Stephan Kohl Contents Notes on Contributors 9 Acknowledgements 13 Foreword 15 Janet Wolff Introduction 19 Teresa Gómez Reus and Aránzazu Usandizaga Early Escapes into Public Spaces Falling Over the Banister: Harriet Martineau and the Uneasy 35 Escape from the Private Lucy Bending Private Rituals and Public Selves: The Turkish Bath in Women’s 47 Travel Writing Efterpi Mitsi Ladies on the Tramp: The Philanthropic Flâneuse and Appropriations 65 of Victorian London’s Impoverished Domesticity Cathleen J. Hamann Women on Display “The Abuse of Visibility”: Domestic Publicity in Late Victorian Fiction 87 Anna Despotopoulou Public Space and Spectacle: Female Bodies and Consumerism in 107 Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth Anne-Marie Evans Tracing the Female Triptych of Space: Private, Public, and Power 125 Strongholds in Gertrude Atherton’s Patience Sparhawk and Her Times and F. Tennyson Jesse’s A Pin to See the Peepshow Janet Stobbs Contents Approaching the City Paving the Way for Mrs Dalloway: The Street-walking Women 149 of Eliza Lynn Linton, Ella Hepworth Dixon and George Paston Valerie Fehlbaum Dwelling, Poaching, Dreaming: Housebreaking and Homemaking 167 in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage Melinda Harvey Colonial Flâneurs: the London Life-writing of Janet Frame 189 and Doris Lessing Ma Lourdes López Ropero Conquering the Spaces of War In a Literary No Man’s Land: A Spatial Reading of Edith Wharton’s 205 Fighting France Teresa Gómez Reus and Peter Lauber Women and War Zones: May Sinclair’s Personal Negotiation with 229 the First World War Laurel Forster Expanding the Private and Public Spaces of War: Vera Brittain’s 249 Testament of Youth Aránzazu Usandizaga Transformations in Nature Friends of our Captivity: Nature, Terror and Refugia in Romantic 273 Women’s Literature Stephen E. Hunt Public Land and Private Fears: Reclaiming Outdoor Spaces 297 in Gretchen Legler’s Sportswoman’s Notebook Lilace Mellin Guignard Negotiating the City Adrienne Rich’s City Poetry: Locating a Flâneuse 319 Kirsten Bartholomew Ortega Contents Writing Inside and Outside: Eavan Boland’s Poetry of the 335 Domestic Space Sara Sullivan Concluding Remarks 351 Janet Floyd Index 359
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