Beschreibung:
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.
Prologue: Mapping the Urban Imaginary: Contemporary Developments in Urban Hermeneutics and the Psychoanalysis of Space1. Women's Urban Modernity: Brontë, Gaskell and Woolf2. The Psychic Spaces of Michèle Roberts' Paper City3. Cartographies of Identity in Maitland's Three Times Table and Lessing's London Observed4. The 'Terror of this City': Re-mapping The Golden Notebook5. De Imitatione Mariae and the New Daughters of London6. Unnerving the Secular Imagination: Spatial Politics in Lessing's Sufi UtopiaEpilogue: Revising Urban GeographyWorks CitedIndex