Routledge Gender and Space in British Literature 1660-1820

This scholarly collection examines how gender and space interconnect in British literature between 1660 and 1820, a period marked by profound structural changes in class, politics, economy, and print culture. Through analysis of diverse genres including poetry, the early novel, letters, and laboratory notebooks, contributors map new cartographies-both geographic and figurative-that reveal how literary works of this era engaged with reconfigured concepts of gender. The book explores how the transformations reshaping British society during the long eighteenth century produced new spatial configurations and redefined gendered identities within literary discourse. Ideal for students and scholars of British literature, literary history, and eighteenth-century studies seeking to understand the complex relationship between spatial representation and gender construction in this pivotal period.