Mapping British Women Writers' Urban Imaginaries

This study provides an alternative to the postmodern tradition of writing about the city by exploring spatialized constructions of gender and spiritual identity through an integrative framework based on insights from Bachelard's topoanalysis, psychogeography, feminist cultural theory and comparative literature and religion.

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Arina Cirstea teaches at Coventry University's Centre for Academic Writing and has previously taught English Literature at the University of Warwick, UK. She publishes on women's writing, literature and religion; her most recent essay is 'Joy, Doubt and Wonder: Contemporary Readings of the Annunciation' in Reading the Abrahamic Faiths (2014).

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Prologue: Mapping the Urban Imaginary: Contemporary Developments in Urban Hermeneutics and the Psychoanalysis of Space 1. Women's Urban Modernity: Brontë, Gaskell and Woolf 2. The Psychic Spaces of Michèle Roberts' Paper City 3. Cartographies of Identity in Maitland's Three Times Table and Lessing's London Observed 4. The 'Terror of this City': Re-mapping The Golden Notebook 5. De Imitatione Mariae and the New Daughters of London 6. Unnerving the Secular Imagination: Spatial Politics in Lessing's Sufi Utopia Epilogue: Revising Urban Geography Works Cited Index