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초기근대 런던의 도시공간과 여성의 혼령주체 -이저벨라 휘트니의「유언장」을 중심으로
Women Who Walked the Streets of Early Modern London and the Disembodied Female Subject in Isabella Whitney``s “Wyll and Testament”
이시연 ( Si Yeon Lee )
안과밖 34권 12-34(23pages)
UCI I410-ECN-0102-2014-800-001498890

Despite rigorous policing, women``s presence on the streets of early modern London was far stronger than in comparable European cities. A legion of plebeian urban females-hucksters, maidservants, prostitutes, and cutpurses- literally walked the streets and sought a viable self as well as livelihood out of their distinctively female relationship to urban space, amidst London``s changing topography. The Great Fire of London in 1666 and the subsequent urban rebuilding and expansion fundamentally altered Londoners`` perception and representation of the cityscape, with the Renaissance perspective of a walled city giving way to the post-Fire grid-like depiction of sprawling streets. The famous street scenes in Moll Flanders(1721)aptly trace the protagonist scuttling around the labyrinthine post-Fire streets, where she quickly learns to turn her “houseless” status into a fluid and flourishing existence across the extra-domestic street space. A similary “houseless” status confronts the “serviceless” woman in Isabella Whitney``s autobiographical “Wyll and Testament”(1573). But to different consequences. In Tudor London, being “serviceless” portends that on leaving the former master``s house, a transitional domestic space for single women between the father``s and the husband``s house, she may be instantly branded as a “loose” woman according to the Poor Law. In the mock-testament upon her forced departure/death, the “serviceless” woman offers a lingering “survey” of London streets she frequented as servant, which in contrast to Moll``s fleeting images, renders the sense of a vibrant but ordered urban life, in a imilar manner to John Stow``s 1598 Survey of London or Braun and Hogenberg``s 1572 London map. The ordered “survey” hides a paradox, though, for it is enabled only by the mock-testator``s willfully disembodied subject, whose last wish/will not to have a grave seals her renunciation of the l(e)ast spatial right, in the city denying her living body.

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