Places, whether political, social, or domestic, often carry symbolic or metonymic meaning. However, the occupants of a place possess the capability to transform, alter, or redefine its significance through the experiential and narrative strategies they employ therein; the garden can become a theatre, or the prison a church. In Early Modern England, both men and women habitually negotiated and redefined the places in which they lived through the life-writing they produced in and about those places. Through the application of modern spatial theories, this thesis demonstrates that place was a fluid category, eluding any singular categorisation, and thus assists a reading of place as a site from which a plurality of subjectivities could emerge. In short, this thesis will construct a creative dialogue between place and the self, as presented in life-writing so as to place both in a mutually informing and transforming relation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:696153 |
| Date | January 2015 |
| Creators | Mulgrew, Paul |
| Publisher | Queen's University Belfast |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
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