Description
| Product ID: | 9781793615350 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Innovation and Activism in American Women's Writing |
| Title: | Creating Your Own Space |
| Subtitle: | The Metaphor of the House in Feminist Literature |
| Authors: | Author: Maria Davis |
| Page Count: | 84 |
| Subjects: | Literature: history and criticism, Literature: history & criticism, Feminism and feminist theory, Feminism & feminist theory |
| Description: | Creating Your Own Space explores the reasons for the use of the house as a metaphor by analyzing two literary works and a particular metaphor, such as the house as a prison or the house as a place of economic freedom. The relationship between women and houses has always been complex. Many influential writers have used the space of the house to portray women''s conflicts with the society of their time. On the one hand, houses can represent a place of physical, psychological and moral restrictions, and on the other, they often serve as a metaphor for economic freedom and social acceptance. This usage is particularly pronounced in works written in the nineteenth and twentieth century, when restrictions on women''s roles were changing: "anxieties about space sometimes seem to dominate the literature of both nineteenth-century women and their twentieth-century descendants." The Metaphor of the House in Feminist Literature uses a feminist literary criticism approach in order to examine the use of the house as metaphor in nineteenth and twentieth century literature. |
| Imprint Name: | Lexington Books |
| Publisher Name: | Lexington Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-03-15 |
