British Boarding Houses in Interwar Women's Literature: Alternative Domestic Spaces

ISBN-13: 9780367140410 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 184 str.

Terri Mullholland

Opis

Emerging during the interwar period, literature set in the boarding house or bedsit allowed women writers from Stella Gibbons to Virginia Woolf to explore women's changing roles and complex experiences. A hybrid of the modernist and realist domestic fiction, the literature of the single room merges Modernism's interest in interior psychological states with the realism of precisely documented exterior spaces, offering a new mode of engagement with the two forms of interiority.

O autorze

Terri Mullholland holds a doctorate in English from the University of Oxford. Her teaching and research interests are in early twentieth-century women’s writing and the intersections of literature and spatial theory. She has published on Jean Rhys, Dorothy Richardson, and May Sinclair, and is co-editor of Spatial Perspectives: Essays on Literature and Architecture (2015).