Title Herspace : women, writing, and solitude / Jo Malin, Victoria Boynton, editors

Published New York : Haworth Press, [2003] ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 287 pages) Series Haworth innovations in feminist studies Haworth innovations in feminist studies. Contents Introduction / Jo Malin -- SECTION I: WOMEN THEORIZING HERSPACE -- SOLITUDE AND WRITING -- Women alone: the spinster's art / Suzette A. Henke -- With sure and uncertain footing: negotiating the terrain of a solitude in May Sarton's journals / Lisette Schillig -- Unknown women: secular solitude in the works of Alice Koller and May Sarton / Christina Pugh -- Veritable guest to her own self / Lisa Johnson -- Woolf, Hurston, and the house of self / Kristina Deffenbacher -- Domestic politics of Marguerite Duras / Annabelle Cone -- SECTION II: WOMEN'S WRITING SPACES -- SOLITUDE AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS -- Writing women, solitary space, and the ideology of domesticity / Victoria Boynton -- Car, kitchen, canyon: mother writing / Claudia Mon Pere -- Between the study and the living room: writing alone and with others / Eleanor Berry -- SECTION III: WOMEN WRITING HERSPACE -- PERSONAL TAKES ON HOME -- What to make of missing children (a life slipping into fiction) / Jan Wellington -- Little gray house and me / Claudia A. Limbert -- Colors and the light / Maria Brown -- Woman's place / Anne Mamary -- Reframing my life / Mary Rose -- An & /or peace performance / H. Kassia Fleisher & /or Joe Amato Summary Virginia Woolf famously called for "a room of one's own" as a necessary prerequisite for a woman's ability to write and express herself. Malin (English, State U. of New York at Binghamton) and Boynton (English, State U. of New York at Cortland) present 14 essays and one poem that explore the relationships between women, writing, solitude, and space. The essays theorize on solitude and writing or offer personal reflections on authors' experiences with writing or their relationships to their homes Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism Feminism and literature -- English-speaking countries Women and literature -- English-speaking countries Authorship -- Sex differences Personal space in literature. Solitude in literature. Women and literature -- United States Women and literature -- Great Britain LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American literature -- Women authors Authorship -- Sex differences English literature -- Women authors Feminism and literature Personal space in literature Solitude in literature Women and literature Frauenliteratur Einsamkeit Motiv Vrouwelijke auteurs. Auteurschap. Sekseverschillen. United States Great Britain English-speaking countries Engelstalige landen. Englisch. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Malin, Jo, 1942- Boynton, Victoria LC no. 2002012018 ISBN 9781317719021 1317719026

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