Women, Privacy and Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century British Writing
W. Gan
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Hardback. Privacy is not often thought of as a marker of modernity but a look at British women's writing of the early twentieth century suggests that it should be so. This book examines the female pursuit of privacy, particularly of the spatial kind, as women began to claim privacy as an entitlement of the modern, middle-class woman. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 344.
Privacy is not often thought of as a marker of modernity but a look at British women's writing of the early twentieth century suggests that it should be so. This book examines the female pursuit of privacy, particularly of the spatial kind, as women began to claim privacy as an entitlement of the modern, middle-class woman.
Privacy is not often thought of as a marker of modernity but a look at British women's writing of the early twentieth century suggests that it should be so. This book examines the female pursuit of privacy, particularly of the spatial kind, as women began to claim privacy as an entitlement of the modern, middle-class woman.
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
194
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
343g
Number of Pages
182
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230535855
SKU
V9780230535855
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99-15
About W. Gan
WENDY GAN is Associate Professor at the School of English, University of Hong Kong.
Reviews for Women, Privacy and Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century British Writing
'Wendy Gan's monograph explores how early twentieth-century representations of female privacy encourage a rethinking of modernity. Among the literary texts examined are novels by Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Walker and F. Tennyson Jesse. Gan argues that whilst the autonomy of the modern subject is often presented as predicated on emphatic intervention in the public sphere, this elides the importance to ... Read more