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British Boarding Houses in Interwar Women's Literature - Alternative domestic spaces (Paperback)
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British Boarding Houses in Interwar Women's Literature - Alternative domestic spaces (Paperback)
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Embraced for the dramatic opportunities afforded by a house full of
strangers, the British boarding house emerged as a setting for
novels published during the interwar period by a diverse range of
women writers from Stella Gibbons to Virginia Woolf. To use the
single room in the boarding house or bedsit, Terri Mullholland
argues, is to foreground a particular experience. While the single
room represents the freedoms of independent living available to
women in the early twentieth century, it also marks the
precariousness of unmarried women's lives. By placing their
characters in this transient space, women writers could explore
women's changing social roles and complex experiences - amateur
prostitution, lesbian relationships, extra-marital affairs, and
abortion - outside traditional domestic narrative concerns.
Mullholland presents new readings of works by canonical and
non-canonical writers, including Stella Gibbons, Winifred Holtby,
Storm Jameson, Rosamond Lehmann, Dorothy Richardson, Jean Rhys, and
Virginia Woolf. A hybrid of the modernist and realist domestic
fiction written and read by women, 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.
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