Threshold Modernism

New Public Women and the Literary Spaces of Imperial London

AvElizabeth F. Evans

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Threshold Modernism reveals how changing ideas about gender and race in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain shaped - and were shaped by - London and its literature. Chapters address key sites, especially department stores, women's clubs, and city streets, that coevolved with controversial types of modern women. Interweaving cultural history, narrative theory, close reading, and spatial analysis, Threshold Modernism considers canonical figures such as George Gissing, Henry James, Dorothy Richardson, H. G. Wells, and Virginia Woolf alongside understudied British and colonial writers including Amy Levy, B. M. Malabari, A. B. C. Merriman-Labor, Duse Mohamed Ali, and Una Marson. Evans argues that these diverse authors employed the 'new public women' and their associated spaces to grapple with widespread cultural change and reflect on the struggle to describe new subjects, experiences, and ways of seeing in appropriately novel ways. For colonial writers of color, those women and spaces provided a means through which to claim their own places in imperial London.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-07-01
Mått:150 x 230 x 15 mm
Vikt:400 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:273
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108466608

Utforska kategorier

Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Elizabeth F. Evans teaches in the Department of English and the Program in Gender Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. She specializes in British and Anglophone literature of the long twentieth century, with particular attention to modernism. She is the coeditor of Woolf and the City (2010) and has published in Modern Fiction Studies, Literature Compass, and Cultural Analytics and in edited collections on Amy Levy, George Gissing, and Virginia Woolf.

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'The book's arguments are clear and forceful. The recovery of reverse imperial ethnography adds historical depth to treatments of race in London that too often begin with materials published after the Second World War. The book will be of interest to a wide variety of readers, from academic specialists in modernism, British literature, women's literature, and postcolonial literature and to advanced students in courses on British modernism, literature and the city, and women's writing.' Michael Thurston, Smith College, Massachusetts

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: London, 1880–1940: Liminal Sites and Contested Identities; 1. Modern sites for modern types: locating the new public woman; 2. Shops and shop girls: the modern shop, 'counter-jumpers', and the shopgirl's narrative evolution; 3. Streets and the woman walker: when 'street love' meets Flânerie; 4. Women's clubs and clubwomen: 'neutral territory', feminist heterotopia, and failed 'diplomacy'; 5. New public women through colonial eyes: reverse imperial ethnography; Notes; Bibliography; Index.