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A Woman's Space Is in the Home: Architecture, Privacy, and Melodrama in Pamela and Gaslight

  • Kay Young

Abstract:

 

The paper presents a reading of the architectural settings of Samuel Richardson’s novel Pamela and [first name] Kukor’s film Gaslight in terms of the new valorization of privacy reflected in the “vertical arrangement” of the Georgian terrace houses.

 

 

June 2004: Kay Young is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is author of Ordinary Pleasures: Couples, Conversation, and Comedy, a study of narrative intimacy and happiness. Currently, she is writing a book called Coming to Consciousness: Mind, Body, Emotion and the 19th-Century English Novel.

 

Publisher's Version

Volume 2, issue 2 Literature and the Ideas of Space
Last updated on 04/18/2020