Mapping British Women Writers Urban Imaginaries: Space, Self and Spirituality [Hardcover]

This study provides an alternative to the postmodern tradition of writing about the city by exploring spatialized constructions of gender and spiritual identity through an integrative framework based on insights from Bachelard's topoanalysis, psychogeography, feminist cultural theory and comparative literature and religion.Arina Cirstea teaches at Coventry University's Centre for Academic Writing and has previously taught English Literature at the University of Warwick, UK. She publishes on women's writing, literature and religion; her most recent essay is 'Joy, Doubt and Wonder: Contemporary Readings of the Annunciation' in Reading the Abrahamic Faiths (2014).