The cultural construction of hidden spaces essays on pockets, pouches and secret drawers / edited by James Brown, Anna Jamieson and Naomi Segal.
| Other author | Brown, James (James Patrick Charles) |
| Other author | Jamieson, Anna. |
| Other author | Segal, Naomi. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2024] |
| Description | xxii, 329 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Spatial practices, 1871-689X ; volume 40 |
| Contents | Pen and pin : two travel journals and a box, 6th January 1829 / Miriam Al Jamil -- The hidden container : what lies within the bags of female characters in children's and young adult literature / Felicia Boyages -- 'This sack so full' : enslaved women's use of sacks in antebellum America / Kathleen B. Casey -- Pockets of affect/containers of feeling / Ellen Sampson -- The shoplifter's pockets : unlawful compartments in womenswear, 1880-1920 / Silvia Bombardini -- 'Catch me if you can' : a study of the power politics of Indian women's secret pockets / Rituparna Das -- Erotic pockets : fashion and the fetishisation of breastfeeding in Georgian graphic satire / Katie Snow -- 'A mystery whose deepest folds were gathered around the dark oak cabinet' : uncovering the secrets of phantastes / Francesca Arnavas -- Conjuring clothing : gendered pockets and ephemeral afterlives in Victorian performance magic / Beatrice Ashton-Lelliott -- Glove magic / Anne Green -- An exploration of ghost doors and ghost spaces in haunted-house literature / Cristiana Pugliese -- Foundling tokens : the necessity of secrecy and exposure / Janette Bright -- Inside the drawers of the Ellis Island Immigration Station / Marija Dalbello -- The secreted self : modern selfhood and the pocket schema in contemporary design / Samuel Talcott -- Buried memoirs and hidden holographs in James Hogg and Margaret Atwood / Victoria Reid -- 'Buried in drawers, sealed bags, boxes' : Pierre Loti's Testimonies of a doubtful life / Gaultier Roux -- From kernel to shell : Louise Bourgeois's Lairs / Lynn M. Somers -- What secrets hide inside Maupassant's drawers? : nostalgia, necrophilia and suicide / Céline Brossillon -- Pejorative pockets from Shakespeare to Austen : what Jean Échenoz knew : pockets and postcritique in 1980s France / Alexandru Matei -- 'Thinking in metal, thinking in wood' : regimes and technologies of secrecy / Carolyn Sargentson. |
| Abstract | "This essay collection focuses on enclosure, deception and secrecy in three spatial areas - the body, clothing and furniture. It contributes to the study of private life and explores the micro-history of hidden spaces. The contents of pockets may prove a surer index to their owner's real thoughts than anything they say; a piece of furniture with ingenious mechanisms created to conceal secrets may also reveal someone's attempts to break in and thus give away as much as it holds. Though the book's focus is on particular material or imagined objects, taken as a whole it exemplifies a range of interdisciplinary encounters between history, literary criticism, art history, philosophy, psychoanalysis, sociology, criminology, archival studies, museology and curating, and women's studies"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024002928 |
| ISBN | 9789004522886 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |