The Unnatural Becoming Natural: How Mistress Eyre Creates Spatial Power in the Transitional City
Faculty Sponsor
Dr. Heather Easterling, easterling@gonzaga.edu
Session Type
Traditional Paper Presentation
Research Project Abstract
In Thomas Dekker’s city comedy The Shoemaker’s Holiday, Early Modern London and the workshop provide a distinct physical space where Margery Eyre is able to go beyond being a presence that is insignificant, and become a necessity to the shoemaking operation. I analyze how Margery uses her own physical and social space in order to insert herself into traditionally masculine roles. In these instances, there is a particular sort of space where she is able to assert an act of subjectivity. I furthermore examine similar connections between space, gender, and modernity in Whit Stillman’s The Last Days of Disco.
Session Number
RS5
Location
Weyerhaeuser 203
Abstract Number
RS5-d
The Unnatural Becoming Natural: How Mistress Eyre Creates Spatial Power in the Transitional City
Weyerhaeuser 203
In Thomas Dekker’s city comedy The Shoemaker’s Holiday, Early Modern London and the workshop provide a distinct physical space where Margery Eyre is able to go beyond being a presence that is insignificant, and become a necessity to the shoemaking operation. I analyze how Margery uses her own physical and social space in order to insert herself into traditionally masculine roles. In these instances, there is a particular sort of space where she is able to assert an act of subjectivity. I furthermore examine similar connections between space, gender, and modernity in Whit Stillman’s The Last Days of Disco.
