RT Journal Article
T1 Women and The City of London in Doris Lessing’s The Diaries of Jane Somers (1984)
A1 Pettersson, Lin Elinor
K1 Londres - En la literatura
AB This paper examines the feminine perspective of London in Doris Lessing’s The Diaries of Jane Somers (1984). Lessing offers a feminist vision of the city representing London as a stage. Janna, the protagonist, strolls around the city, becoming a flâneuse as she gazes at the spectacle of urban life. Janna’s relationship to the old woman Maudie Fowler enables her to see the different layers of time and space of London and read the city as a palimpsest, a manuscript that shows traces of earlier texts. Lessing blends the theatrical view of city with the palimpsest. Furthermore, nature is not separated from the urban environment, but included as an essential part of the city. The femininity in Lessing’s view of London resides in the combination of theatre, palimpsest and nature.
PB Universidad de La Laguna
SN 1579-7902
YR 2014
FD 2014
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/30320
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/30320
LA eng
NO Elinor Pettersson, Lin. 2021. Women and the City of London in Doris Lessing’s The Diaries of Jane Somers (1984). Clepsydra. Revista Internacional De Estudios De Género Y Teoría Feminista, n.º 13 (abril). https://www.ull.es/revistas/index.php/clepsydra/article/view/2565
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 13 abr 2026