Cultural Construction of Hidden Spaces

James Brown took a doctorate at Oxford in 1992, teaches literature, film and political theory, and is honorary research fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. His most recent published essays address whistleblowing, divorce in British film, and Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.Anna Jamieson is an interdisciplinary historian specialising in visual and material cultures of women and psychiatry in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England. She was awarded her PhD at Birkbeck in 2020, and is currently a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Birmingham.Naomi Segal is Professor Emerita at the Institute of Languages, Cultures & Societies. Her recent monographs are Consensuality: Didier Anzieu, gender and the sense of touch and André Gide: Pederasty & Pedagogy. Her next book, Replacement, will be published by Brill in 2024.

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroductionPart 1Room of One’s Own: Bags, Pockets and Boxes1 Pen and Pin Two Travel Journals and a Box, 6th January 1829Miriam Al Jamil2 The Hidden Container What Lies within the Bags of Female Characters in Children’s and Young-Adult LiteratureFelicia Boyages3 ‘This Sack So Full’ Enslaved Women’s Use of Sacks in Antebellum AmericaKathleen B. Casey4 Pockets of Affect/Containers of FeelingEllen SampsonPart 2Pockets and Transgression5 The Shoplifter’s Pockets Unlawful Compartments in Womenswear, 1880–1920Silvia Bombardini6 ‘Catch Me If You Can’ A Study of the Power Politics of Indian Women’s Secret PocketsRituparna Das7 Erotic Pockets Fashion and the Fetishisation of Breastfeeding in Georgian Graphic SatireKatie SnowPart 3Hidden Spaces, Magical and Supernatural8 ‘A Mystery Whose Deepest Folds Were Gathered around the Dark Oak Cabinet’ Uncovering the Secrets of PhantastesFrancesca Arnavas9 Conjuring Clothing Gendered Pockets and Ephemeral Afterlives in Victorian Performance MagicBeatrice Ashton-Lelliott10 Glove MagicAnne Green11 An Exploration of Ghost Doors and Ghost Spaces in Haunted-House LiteratureCristiana PugliesePart 4Systems of Identity12 Foundling Tokens The Necessity of Secrecy and ExposureJanette Bright13 Inside the Drawers of the Ellis Island Immigration StationMarija Dalbello14 The Secreted Self Modern Selfhood and the Pocket Schema in Contemporary DesignSamuel TalcottPart 5Artefacts: the Production of Hidden Space15 Buried Memoirs and Hidden Holographs in James Hogg and Margaret AtwoodVictoria Reid16 ‘Buried in Drawers, Sealed Bags, Boxes’ Pierre Loti’s Testimonies of a Doubtful LifeGaultier Roux17 From Kernel to Shell Louise Bourgeois’s LairsLynn M. SomersPart 6Hidden Space as Literary Trope18 What Secrets Hide inside Maupassant’s Drawers? Nostalgia, Necrophilia and SuicideCéline Brossillon19 Pejorative Pockets from Shakespeare to Austen20 What Jean Échenoz Knew Pockets and Postcritique in 1980s FranceAlexandru MateiPart 7Appendix21 ‘Thinking in Metal, Thinking in Wood’ Regimes and Technologies of SecrecyCarolyn SargentsonIndex