Another key area of inquiry in this collection is the way in which gender intersected with other categories such as class, race, and sexuality. In her essay on “The Queer Spaces of Eighteenth-Century English Literature,” for example, Ruth Mack argues that queer writers such as Thomas Gray and Horace Walpole used spatial metaphors to explore the complexities of same-sex desire (Mack, 2014, p. 67). Similarly, in her essay on “The Colonial Body: Race, Gender, and Empire in Eighteenth-Century Literature,” Supriya Chaudhuri examines the ways in which colonial discourse constructed and represented the bodies of colonized peoples, particularly women (Chaudhuri, 2014, p. 89).
Gevirtz, K. (2014). The Politics of Space in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko. In M. Narain & K. Gevirtz (Eds.), Gender and Space in British Literature, 1660-1820 (pp. 23-38).
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