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Threshold Modernism

New Public Women and the Literary Spaces of Imperial London
Buch | Hardcover
280 Seiten
2018
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-47981-3 (ISBN)
104,70 inkl. MwSt
Evans shows how ideas about gender and race in Britain from the 1880s through the 1930s shaped - and were shaped by - London and its literature. She considers canonical realist and modernist authors, from George Gissing to Virginia Woolf, alongside understudied colonial writers like Duse Mohamed Ali and Una Marson.
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.

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.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises; 11 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 157 x 235 mm
Gewicht 580 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 1-108-47981-2 / 1108479812
ISBN-13 978-1-108-47981-3 / 9781108479813
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