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Creating Your Own Space
The Metaphor of the House in Feminist Literature
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2021
Summary
The relationship between women and houses has always been complex. Many influential writers have used the space of the house to portray women's conflicts with the society of their time. On the one hand, houses can represent a place of physical, psychological and moral restrictions, and on the other, they often serve as a metaphor for economic freedom and social acceptance. This usage is particularly pronounced in works written in the nineteenth and twentieth century, when restrictions on women's roles were changing: "anxieties about space sometimes seem to dominate the literature of both nineteenth-century women and their twentieth-century descendants." The Metaphor of the House in Feminist Literature uses a feminist literary criticism approach in order to examine the use of the house as metaphor in nineteenth and twentieth century literature.
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2021
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-1535-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-1536-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
69
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
1 The House as a Symbol of Women’s Economic Freedom No access Pages 1 - 8
2 The House and Female Mental Entrapment No access Pages 9 - 18
3 The House as a Metaphor for Social Performance No access Pages 19 - 30
4 The House as a Symbol of Female Physical Entrapment No access Pages 31 - 40
5 The House as a Magical Space No access Pages 41 - 48
6 The House as a Metaphor of Social and Racial Integration No access Pages 49 - 58
