LEADER 05419nam 22006495 450 001 9910865273803321 005 20250808090417.0 010 $z9783031549304$b(print) 010 $a9783031549311$b(ebook) 010 $a3031549317$b(ebook) 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-54931-1 035 $a(OCoLC)1443001202 035 $a(CKB)32317916300041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31496592 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31496592 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-54931-1 035 $a(EXLCZ)9932317916300041 100 $a20240618d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurbn#|||maa|a 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDrafty Houses in Forster, Eliot and Woolf $eSpatiality and Cultural Politics /$fby Ria Banerjee 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) 225 1 $aGeocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies,$x2634-5188 311 08$aPrint version: Banerjee, Ria Drafty houses in Forster, Eliot and Woolf Cham, Switzerland : Springer Nature Switzerland ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, [2024] 9783031549304 (OCoLC)1419055787 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 1- Introduction -- Chapter 2 - Spatial Renovations and Forgetting as Memorialization in Forster?s Global Imaginarium -- Chapter 3 - Stage Spaces and T. S. Eliot?s Exits from Secular Modernity -- Chapter 4 - Drafty Houses, Imperial Boredom, and Collecting in Woolf?s Lumber Room. 330 $a Drafty Houses is original, important, and brings together antiracist and postcolonial discourse with theories of spatiality to create a fresh analysis of familiar texts. This book concerns itself substantively with the complex gender and racial politics of the time and of these writers in particular. Banerjee has a helpful sense of proportion, and she never shies away from these authors? failings but she is most interested in how they learned and grew. There is a comic, obvious brilliance to the way Banerjee notices Woolf?s interest in interior decoration, change, and modification of living spaces as a sign of her modernity. ?Anne Fernald, Professor of English and Women?s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Fordham University This lucid, powerfully argued book provides us with revelatory readings of three authors whose work we have perhaps decided we could no longer be surprised by: an E. M. Forster, deeply aware of and disturbed by his own liberal complacency and his complicity with colonialism; an antiauthoritarian, anticolonial T. S. Eliot, discoverable primarily in his dramatic writings; and a Virginia Woolf who turns us away from the repressive order, the cultural uniformities of London?s social spaces. With revealing glimpses into her own experience as a teacher in New York, Banerjee is ultimately writing in support of what she stirringly describes as 'a humanism that might sustain us as individuals who protest the inequitable societies of which we are a part'.? ?John Whittier-Ferguson, Professor of English, University of Michiga 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 limits and the open-ended possibilities of liberal humanism, Christian conservatism, and feminist pacifism. Ria Banerjee is Associate Professor of English at Guttman Community College and Consortial Faculty at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA. She has been published in Modernism/modernity Print Plus, ELN, the Eliot Studies Annual, and South Atlantic Review. . 410 0$aGeocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies,$x2634-5188 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aEuropean literature 606 $aFiction 606 $aCreative nonfiction 606 $aTwentieth-Century Literature 606 $aEuropean Literature 606 $aFiction Literature 606 $aNon-Fiction Literature 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aEuropean literature. 615 0$aFiction. 615 0$aCreative nonfiction. 615 14$aTwentieth-Century Literature. 615 24$aEuropean Literature. 615 24$aFiction Literature. 615 24$aNon-Fiction Literature. 676 $a820.9 700 $aBanerjee$b Ria$01742906 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910865273803321 996 $aDrafty Houses in Forster, Eliot and Woolf$94169599 997 $aUNINA