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Drafty Houses in Forster, Eliot and Woolf

By Ria Banerjee

Drafty Houses in Forster, Eliot and Woolf Contemporary literature

Drafty Houses in Forster, Eliot and Woolf

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This book argues that E. M. Forster, T. S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf engaged sustainedly with real and imagined places as sites of counter-cultural politics. These writers used architectural images in diaries, essays, novels, poems, and plays to express their dissatisfaction with imperial London: from the glorification of war to the erosion of local religious and linguistic traditions, and rigidly gendered practices in domestic and public life. Drafty Houses shows that each author experienced post-war modernity as intimate spatial dislocation-in Egypt (Forster), in the church (Eliot), or in London's museums and streets (Woolf)-and traces connections between their personal experiences and lesser read publications to theorize about the impact of places on their writerly perspectives. By closely examining each author's negotiation of space symbolic of Englishness, empire, and global politics, Drafty Houses considers the limitsand the open-ended possibilities of liberal humanism, Christian conservatism, and feminist pacifism.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
240
Release Date:
2025-06-20
Publication Date:
2025-06-20
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
3031549333
ISBN13:
9783031549335
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
316 g
Height:
148 cm
Width:
210 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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