Terri Mullholland

British Boarding Houses in Interwar Women's Literature

Alternative domestic spaces

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Produktbeschreibung

Emerging during the interwar period, literature set in the boarding house or bedsit allowed women writers from Stella Gibbons to Virginia Woolf to explore women's changing roles and complex experiences. A hybrid of the modernist and realist domestic fiction, the literature of the single room merges Modernism's interest in interior psychological states with the realism of precisely documented exterior spaces, offering a new mode of engagement with the two forms of interiority.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 281g
• ISBN-13: 9780367140410
• ISBN-10: 0367140411
• Artikelnr.: 56924410

Autorenporträt

Terri Mullholland holds a doctorate in English from the University of Oxford. Her teaching and research interests are in early twentieth-century women's writing and the intersections of literature and spatial theory. She has published on Jean Rhys, Dorothy Richardson, and May Sinclair, and is co-editor of Spatial Perspectives: Essays on Literature and Architecture (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Introduction: Reading the Single Room in the British Boarding House
Chapter 1 - No Place Like Home: Boarding and Lodging in Dorothy
Richardson's Pilgrimage
Chapter 2 - 'Less than ten shillings between her and nothing': Social Class
and the Economics of the Boarding House in Storm Jameson, Lettice Cooper,
and Stella Gibbons
Chapter 3 -'Can we go back to your room?' - Relationships, Sexual
Encounters and Romantic Friendships in Rosamond Lehmann, Jean Rhys and
Winifred Holtby
Chapter 4 - Race and Nationality: Travelling to the British Boarding House
Chapter 5 - Conclusion - Rooms for Single Women: Virginia Woolf's The Years