Gender And Space In British Literature 1660 1820 Edited By Mona Narain And Karen Gevirtz British Literature In Context In The Long Eighteenth Century By Mona Narain 2014 02 01 May 2026

Travel narratives, picaresque novels, and even the new fashion for carriage rides become case studies. How did a woman’s mobility differ from a man’s? What happened when female characters ventured outside the domestic sphere in novels by Aphra Behn or Daniel Defoe? The essays argue that literal movement (or confinement) is a powerful metaphor for social agency.

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