This book interrogates the spatial exclusion of women from the vast public sphere of city life based on late nineteenth and early twentieth century novels and short stories written by both male and female authors. In particular, this book investigates the female characters in William Dean Howell's The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885), Charlotte Perkins Gillman's The Yellow Wallpaper (1892), Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893), Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899), Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie (1900), and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth (1905). In all literary works-where the...
This book interrogates the spatial exclusion of women from the vast public sphere of city life based on late nineteenth and early twentieth century no...
