Abstract:
This project conceptualizes 'erotic space' in the literature of the mid-twentieth century by finding an intersection point between sexuality studies and spatiality studies. This is achieved by investigating the developments of the Sexual Revolution and the 'spatial turn', and observing their mutual interaction. Erotic space is studied in James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room, Iris Murdoch's A Severed Head, and Stephen Vizinczey's In Praise of Older Women.