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A Space of Her Own: Hotels in the Interwar Short Fiction of Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and Elizabeth Bowen

The space between (Space Between (Society)), 2023-01, Vol.19, p.1-1 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright The Space Between Society 2023 ;ISSN: 1551-9309

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    A Space of Her Own: Hotels in the Interwar Short Fiction of Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and Elizabeth Bowen
  • Author: Despotopoulou, Anna ; Marinou, Chryssa
  • Subjects: Conspiracy ; Creativity ; Females ; Fiction ; Gender ; Hotels & motels ; Interwar period ; Mansfield, Katherine (1888-1923) ; Names ; Violence ; Women ; Womens literature ; Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941) ; World War I
  • Is Part Of: The space between (Space Between (Society)), 2023-01, Vol.19, p.1-1
  • Description: Keywords Hotels / women / women's creativity / violence / home / interwar literature Introduction This paper explores the representation of hotels in women's fiction of the interwar period, discussing the ways in which this modern space of commercial hospitality engenders and hosts, but also challenges, the creativity of women characters. For the women characters of authors such as Elizabeth Bowen and Jean Rhys, the hotel becomes a universe that is cut off from the rest of the world, offering a "refuge from the scrutiny of the public sphere" (Short 148-49). [...]the hotel provides women with opportunities for sexual exploration and experimentation, as this neutral, impersonal setting may incite new temporary relations which place more emphasis on spontaneous bodily proximity rather than on long-term intimacy. Barbara Black, for example, connects hotel anonymity with role-playing and with opportunities for self-invention: "individuals checking in to hotels experience freedom, especially from home. [...] [...]Rosalind invents new names and a parallel universe in which her husband exists as a rabbit king, King Lappin, and she as his smaller but spontaneous and mysterious Queen Lapinova: "They were the opposite of each other; he was bold and determined; she wary and undependable.
  • Publisher: Chester: The Space Between Society
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1551-9309
  • Source: Freely Accessible Arts & Humanities Journals check A Z of ejournals
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