Literature In Context In The Long Eighteenth Century By Mona Narain 2014 02 01 — Gender And Space In British Literature 1660 1820 Edited By Mona Narain And Karen Gevirtz British

★★★★☆ (4/5) – Dense at times, but transformative in its methodology.

In our own era of remote work, gated communities, and debates over public monuments, that lesson feels more urgent than ever. ★★★★☆ (4/5) – Dense at times, but transformative

Mapping the Margins: How Gender Shaped the Rooms, Roads, and Empires of British Literature (1660–1820) Part of the British Literature in Context in

That idea—that space is gendered, and gender is spatialized—is the driving engine of the 2014 collection , edited by Mona Narain and Karen Gevirtz . Part of the British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century series, this volume offers a crucial intervention for students and scholars alike. What the Book Argues The central thesis is deceptively simple: Space is never neutral. Narain and Gevirtz bring together essays that examine how shifting definitions of public and private, urban and rural, domestic and foreign, directly influenced—and were influenced by—changing ideas about masculinity, femininity, and sexuality. urban and rural