I Close My Eyes, and I Travel: Imaginary Travel in Susan Sontag’s Play Alice in Bed

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dc.contributor.authorKaya, Nilay
dc.date.accessioned2026-04-04T18:48:31Z
dc.date.available2026-04-04T18:48:31Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractSusan Sontag’s 1993 play Alice in Bed focuses on Alice James, a historical figure from the 19th century who, despite having a privileged education and lifestyle, was unable to fulfill her own dreams. She lived in the shadow of her novelist brother Henry James and her other famous brother, psychologist, and thinker William James. Drawing from Alice James’ diaries published posthumously, Sontag breathes life into her, concentrating on the times when she was bedridden in her sickroom in London, having struggled with illness for most of her life. The sixth scene of the play is set entirely in Alice’s mind and depicts an imaginary journey to Rome. This scene can be considered as a distinct genre in literature, is privileged in narratives of imaginary travel, and points to the efforts a socially very precarious woman in the 19th century made to construct an autonomous identity. © 2024, Istanbul University Press. All rights reserved.
dc.identifier.doi10.26650/jtcd.1393494
dc.identifier.endpage11
dc.identifier.issn2687-4636
dc.identifier.issue38
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85209771696
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ4
dc.identifier.startpage1
dc.identifier.trdizinid1342815
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.26650/jtcd.1393494
dc.identifier.urihttps://search.trdizin.gov.tr/tr/yayin/detay/1342815
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/10199
dc.identifier.volume2024
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.indekslendigikaynakTR-Dizin
dc.language.isotr
dc.publisherIstanbul University Press
dc.relation.ispartofTiyatro Elestirmenligi ve Dramaturji Bolumu Dergisi
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_Scopus_20260402
dc.subjectFlâneuse
dc.subjectImaginary Travel
dc.subjectPsychogeography
dc.subjectThe Grand Tour
dc.subjectWoman And Travel In The 19<Sup>Th</Sup> Century
dc.titleI Close My Eyes, and I Travel: Imaginary Travel in Susan Sontag’s Play Alice in Bed
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