Women, Space and Utopia 1600–1800
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Eighteenth Century Political Economy
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Female Academy
female identity in seventeenth century utopias
feminist utopianism
Femme Forte
gendered spatial theory
Lady Happy
Lady Mary Wroth
Lady Sidney
margaret
Margaret Cavendish
Mary Astell
Mary Ward
Millenium Hall
Montagu's Turkish Embassy Letters
Montagu’s Turkish Embassy Letters
Munster Village
Murad III
Oriental Tales
orientalism and gender
Protestant Nunnery
Reformist Institution
Secular Convents
Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia
Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia
social production of space
women writers history
Women's Utopias
Women’s Utopias
Product details
- ISBN 9780754652571
- Weight: 760g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 05 Jan 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The first full length study of women's utopian spatial imagination in the seventeenth and eigtheenth centuries, this book explores the sophisticated correlation between identity and social space. The investigation is mainly driven by conceptual questions and thus seeks to link theoretical debates about space, gender and utopianism to historiographic debates about the (gendered) social production of space. As Pohl's primary aim is to demonstrate how women writers explore the complex (gender) politics of space, specific attention is given to spaces that feature widely in contemporary utopian imagination: Arcadia, the palace, the convent, the harem and the country house. The early modern writers Lady Mary Wroth and Margaret Cavendish seek to recreate Paradise in their versions of Eden and Jerusalem; the one yearns for Arcadia, the other for Solomon's Temple. Margaret Cavendish and Mary Astell redefine the convent as an emancipatory space, dismissing its symbolic meaning as a confining and surveilled architecture. The utopia of the country house in the work of Delarivier Manley, Sarah Scott and Mary Hamilton will reveal how women writers resignify the traditional metonym of the country estate. The study will finish with an investigation of Oriental tales and travel writing by Ellis Cornelia Knight, Lady Mary Montagu, Elizabeth Craven and Lady Hester Stanhope who unveil the seraglio as a location for a Western, specifically masculine discourse on Orientalism, despotism and female sexuality and offers their own utopian judgment.
Nicole Pohl is Lecturer in English in the School of Cultural Studies, University College Northampton, UK.
