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This edited book provides a unique opportunity for international scholars to contribute to the exploration of liminality in the field of Anglo-American literature written by or about women between the Victorian period and the Second World War.

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Author:   T. Gifford ,  T. Gifford
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   3.698kg
ISBN:  

9781137330468

ISBN 10:   1137330465
Pages:   197
Publication Date:   27 September 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION PART I: NEW WOMEN, OLD PATTERNS 1. 'Nobody's child must sleep under Somebody's roof – and why not yours?': Adventures of the Female Ego in Dickens, George Meredith's The Egoist and Wilkie Collins's No Name; Shannon Russell 2. 'Dangerous Domestic Secrets' on Trial in The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins; Janet Stobbs Wright 3. 'Running on lines': Women and the Railway in Victorian and early Modernist Culture; Anna Despotopoulou 4. Stepping Out: 'At Home' or 'From our Own Correspondent'? The Lady Writer or the Woman Journalist?; Valerie Fehlbaum PART II: THE CALL OF THE WILD 5. 'I write the truth as I see it:' Unsettling the Boundaries of Gender, Travel Writing and Ethnography in Isabella Bird's Unbeaten Tracks in Japan; Daniela Kato 6. Early Women Mountaineers Achieve Both Summits and Publication in Britain and America; Terry Gifford 7. Racing to the Front: Auto-mobility and Competing Narratives of Women in the First World War; Teresa Gómez Reus PART III: REDRAWING THE BOUNDARIES 8. 'Always Coming and Going': The In-Between Spaces of Elizabeth Bowen's Early Novels; Emma Short 9. Moving Back to 'Home' and 'Nation': Women Dramatists, 1938-1945; Rebecca D'Monté 10. Spatial Parody, Theatricalisation and Constructions of 'Self' in Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt and Carson McCullers' The Ballad of the Sad Café; Frances Piper 11. 'Fritillary Fever': Cultivating the Self and Gardening the World in the Writing of Clara Coltman Vyvyan; Niamh Downing

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Teresa Gomez Reus and Terry Gifford's edited collection is a timely book, which provides an extremely valuable account of women's negotiations with spaces in transit in the work of women writers between the Victorian age and the 1950s. The collection suggests new ways of thinking about women and space in a range of texts, successfully structured in three sections which are indebted to Arnold Van Gennep's stages of rites of passage. Undoubtedly, Gomez Reus and Gifford's volume will become essential reading for those interested in the field of gender and spatial studies. Rosario Arias, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Malaga, Spain

Teresa Gomez Reus and Terry Gifford's edited collection is a timely book, which provides an extremely valuable account of women's negotiations with spaces in transit in the work of women writers between the Victorian age and the 1950s. The collection suggests new ways of thinking about women and space in a range of texts, successfully structured in three sections which are indebted to Arnold Van Gennep's stages of rites of passage. Undoubtedly, Gomez Reus and Gifford's volume will become essential reading for those interested in the field of gender and spatial studies. Rosario Arias, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Malaga, Spain

Author Information

Anna Despotopoulou, University of Athens, Greece Valerie Fehlbaum, University of Geneva, Switzerland Shannon Russell, John Cabot University in Rome, Italy Rebecca D'Monté, University of the West of England, UK Terry Gifford, University of Alicante, Spain Daniela Kato, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China Emma Short, Newcastle University, UK Frances Piper, University of Salford, UK Niamh Downing, University College Falmouth, UK Teresa Gómez Reus, University of Alicante, Spain Janet Stobbs Wright, University of CEU Cardenal Herrera in Elche, Spain

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