Lauren Elkin
Biographic Data
| ID | 6564516 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lauren Elkin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lauren |
| FAMILY NAME | Elkin |
| SIGNATURE | ELKIN L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Knife-Woman
Bedroom
An erudite and highly enjoyable exploration of the most intriguing of personal spaces, from Greek and Roman antiquity through today The winner of France’s prestigious Prix Femina Essai (2009), this imaginative and captivating book explores the many dimensions of the room in which we spend so much of our lives—the bedroom. Eminent cultural historian Michelle Perrot traces the evolution of the bedroom from the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans …
Getting the Story Across
Getting the Story Across:Jean Rhys’s Paranoid Narrative Lauren Elkin (bio) “[P]aranoia for all its vaunted suspicion acts as though its work would be accomplished if only it could finally, this time, somehow get its story truly known.” —Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction Jean Rhys’s heroines find judgment lurking in every bar, hotel, and restaurant in Paris. Worrying constantly about how they are perceived by lovers, e…
The Room and the Street
The modernist city is commonly thought of as a city of exteriors; we envision the ‘spaces of modernity’ as sites of industry or leisure, and apply the very notion of the ‘urban’—urban planning, urban studies—to the way we approach public spaces. But by reading together the paintings of Gwen John (1876–1939) and the writings of Jean Rhys (1890–1979), we discern a different modernist story than we are used to hearing—one that collapses divisions be…
The Room and the Street
The modernist city is commonly thought of as a city of exteriors; we envision the ‘spaces of modernity’ as sites of industry or leisure, and apply the very notion of the ‘urban’—urban planning, urban studies—to the way we approach public spaces. But by reading together the paintings of Gwen John (1876–1939) and the writings of Jean Rhys (1890–1979), we discern a different modernist story than we are used to hearing—one that collapses divisions be…
Getting the Story Across
Getting the Story Across:Jean Rhys’s Paranoid Narrative Lauren Elkin (bio) “[P]aranoia for all its vaunted suspicion acts as though its work would be accomplished if only it could finally, this time, somehow get its story truly known.” —Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction Jean Rhys’s heroines find judgment lurking in every bar, hotel, and restaurant in Paris. Worrying constantly about how they are perceived by lovers, e…
The Room and the Street
The modernist city is commonly thought of as a city of exteriors; we envision the ‘spaces of modernity’ as sites of industry or leisure, and apply the very notion of the ‘urban’—urban planning, urban studies—to the way we approach public spaces. But by reading together the paintings of Gwen John (1876–1939) and the writings of Jean Rhys (1890–1979), we discern a different modernist story than we are used to hearing—one that collapses divisions be…
Bedroom
An erudite and highly enjoyable exploration of the most intriguing of personal spaces, from Greek and Roman antiquity through today The winner of France’s prestigious Prix Femina Essai (2009), this imaginative and captivating book explores the many dimensions of the room in which we spend so much of our lives—the bedroom. Eminent cultural historian Michelle Perrot traces the evolution of the bedroom from the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans …
Knife-Woman
Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work)