Geetha Ramanathan is Emeritus Professor of Comparative Literature which she taught at West Chester University, USA. Her most recent books on modernisms are Locating Gender in Modernism: The Female Outsider (2012), and The Female in German Modernisms: The Visual Turn (2019).

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1 Intertext and Influence2 Women and Euro-Modernism1 Gendered Historiography and Colonial Euro-Modernist Aesthetics1 Access to History2 Tropes in History and Narrative3 Whose History4 “Plot” and History5 Gender and History in the Novels6 Conclusion2 Difference across Colonial/Post-Colonial Authorship3 Euro-Modernist and Post-Colonial Masquerades1 The Detective Story2 Female Absence and Presence3 Male Absence and Presence4 The Post-Colonial Detective5 The Crime6 The Modernist Masquerade7 Woman and Genre8 Woman and Big History9 Doubles10 Colonial and Post-Colonial Romance4 The Aesthetics and Literary Politics of Commodities5 Geography and the Gendering of PlaceConclusionBibliographyIndex