Title Women, privacy and modernity in early twentieth-century British writing / Wendy Gan

Published Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 182 pages) Contents Reconfiguring domestic space for female privacy : the garden, the study and the room -- Public privacy : women, the city and the car -- Privileging privacy : the pre-modern role models of the witch and the primitive -- 'We have gone recreation mad' : leisure, privacy and modern domestic identity -- The loss of a private world : women, privacy and novels of adultery Summary Privacy is not often thought of as a marker of modernity but a look at British women₂s writing of the early twentieth century suggests that it should be so. For women, access to privacy, especially spatial privacy, has often been limited but with an increased awareness of the politics of space and the importance of a room of one₂s own, privacy, long considered a male preserve, was slowly becoming seen as a privilege that a modern and middle-class woman was entitled to. This appropriation of anti-social privacy was a rebellion against conventional, other-centred femininity and emancipatory in its modernity. But even as women were growing aware of their new desire for privacy, privacy was nonetheless awkward for women to practice. Looking at representations of women₂s privacy (or lack of it) and exploring the various spaces that women deploy for privacy allows us to see the ambivalences of modernity for women Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-180) and index 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 English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism Women in literature. Privacy in literature. Home in literature. Space in literature. Women -- Identity. Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain Literary essays. Literary studies: from c 1900 -. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. Literature. English literature English literature -- Women authors Home in literature Modernism (Literature) Privacy in literature Space in literature Women -- Identity Women in literature Kvinnor i litteraturen. Engelsk litteratur -- historia -- 1900-talet. Engelsk litteratur -- kvinnliga författare. Flickor/kvinnor i litteraturen. Privatliv i litteraturen. Hemmet i litteraturen. Great Britain Storbritannien. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230232716 023023271X

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