Artist and attic : a study of poetic space in nineteenth-century women's writing

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    • Chi, Hsin Ying

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Artist and attic : a study of poetic space in nineteenth-century women's writing

Hsin Ying Chi

University Press of America, c1999

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-165) and index

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内容説明

Artists and Attic sees the relationship between architecture and literature as a concrete reflection of nineteenth century ideology creating an iconic picture of women's position in society and literature during that period. In the Victorian house, the attic is hidden and neglected, yet to a woman artist, it is a space of her own to produce a text of her own. The author presents the neglected attic as related to the neglected woman and the limited space symbolizes the confinement of woman and the woman writer, yet obtaining this space of her own becomes the central concern to women and women writers. This book explores the function of the attic in nineteenth century British and American women's writing, as it is given meaning and life by the writers. To many of the women, the attic created a paradoxical image of their seclusion, but also of their own poetic space for freedom in creation. Many of the writers see the attic as a retreat to escape from patriarchal oppression and a place to seek social identity.

目次

chapter 1 Acknowledgments chapter 2 Introduction: Women's Attics, Women's Spaces chapter 3 Villette: A House of Her Own: The Mill on the Floss: Time, Space, and Self-Assertion chapter 4 "The Yellow Wallpaper": The Attic of the Mind chapter 5 Jane Eyre: The Madwoman in the Attic chapter 6 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: From Grandmother's Attic to the Road of Freedom chapter 7 Conclusion: From the Attic to "A Room of One's Own" chapter 8 Notes chapter 9 Bibliography chapter 10 Index chapter 11 About the Author

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