Here and Now: The Politics of Social Space in D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf

ISBN-13: 9780415762809 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 252 str.

Youngjoo San;?Abar;?Abar

Opis

Working at the crossroads of contemporary geographical and cultural theories about social space and questions of modernity and modernism, this book explores how social space functions as sites which foreground D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf's critiques of the social order and longings for change.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Rewriting Private and Public Spaces Introduction Chapter One 1. The anguish of the home discord: Refiguring Domestic Space in Sons and Lovers 2. Reversing Gender and Space in The Rainbow Chapter Two 1. Refiguring Domestic Space: A Sketch of the Past and Mrs. Dalloway 2. Spatializing Feminism 3. Remodeling Public Space Part II. Remolding Home and Nation Introduction Chapter Three 1. Revisiting Home/Nation 2. Imperialism and the Discourse of Home 3. Demolishing Home/Nation: The Virgin and the Gipsy 4. I Won't Delude Myself with the Fallacy of Home: Toward an Alternative Home/Nation in Kangaroo Chapter Four 1. An Uncanny Story: The Journal of Mistress Joan Martyn 2. Demolishing the Imperial Home/Nation: The Waves 3. Toward an Alternative Home/Nation in The Years Part III. Utopic Spaces Her and Now Introduction Chapter Five 1. The Conception of Utopia, Rananim 2. Rewriting Utopias: The Man Who Loved Islands and A Dream of Life 3. Insurgent Now 4. Emerging Utopia Here and Now: The Rainbow 5. A Perpetual Journey: Women in Love Chapter Six 1. Woolf's Utopia in the 1930s 2. Utopia in a City: Mrs. Dalloway 3. Epiphanies Refigured: Moments of Being, The Moment: Summer's Night, and Between the Acts Conclusion Bibliography Index

O autorze

Younjoo San is a full-time lecturer at the Department of English Language & Literature at Seoul National University. Is a member of the Virginia Woolf society in Korea, the James Joyce Society in Korea, and Studies in Modern Fiction. Recent publications include Virginis Woolf's 'Moments of Being' and Utopia Refigured and The Journal of Humanities, Rethinking Epiphanies: The Politics of Utopic Space/ Time in D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf.