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Women, Space and Utopia, 1600-1800 (Paperback)
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Women, Space and Utopia, 1600-1800 (Paperback)
Series: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
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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.
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