Title Threshold Modernism : New Public Women and the Literary Spaces of Imperial London

Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (276 pages) Contents Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction London, 1880-1940: Liminal Sites and Contested Identities; London, the New Public Woman, and Modernist Studies; Threshold Modernism; Identity and Narrative Studies in the Spatial Turn; Chapter 1 Modern Sites for Modern Types: Locating the New Public Woman; The Genealogy of the New Public Woman; Spectacality, a Mode of Agency; The Barmaid of the Modern City, from W.E. Henley to James Joyce Chapter 2 Shops and Shopgirls: The Modern Shop, "Counter-Jumpers," and the Shopgirl's Narrative EvolutionThe Narrative Evolution of the Shopgirl as Discursive Type; Henry James's "Typical" Shopgirl; Romancing the Shop: Amy Levy's Spectacular Women in Business; The Shopgirl's Masterplot: George Gissing and the Periodical Press of the 1890s; The Afterlife of the Paradigmatic Shopgirl in the Early Twentieth Century; Chapter 3 Streets and the Woman Walker: When "Street Love" Meets Flânerie "Wrappered" Life, "Prowling Pitfalls," and the Sexual Politics of City Streets in H.G. Wells's Ann VeronicaWalking Women and "Street Love" in Virginia Woolf's Night and Day and The Years; Chapter 4 Women's Clubs and Clubwomen: "Neutral Territory," Feminist Heterotopia, and Failed "Diplomacy"; The Spectacular Rise of Clubs for Women; The Women's Club as a Space of Freedom, Censorship, and Narrative Possibility in Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage; The Women's Club as Failed Diplomacy in Una Marson's London; Chapter 5 New Public Women Through Colonial Eyes: Reverse Imperial Ethnography The "Indian Eye" on Late Victorian London: B.M. Malabari and T.N. Mukharji"White Women and Black Men" Through the "Negro Spectacles" of A.B.C. Merriman-Labor and the "Eastern Spectacles" of Duse Mohamed Ali; References; Index Summary Reveals how changing ideas about gender and race shaped - and were shaped by - London and its literature Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-251) and index Notes Print version record Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Women in literature. Sex role in literature. Liminality in literature. Modernism (Literature) -- England -- London LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Sex role in literature Liminality in literature English literature Literature Modernism (Literature) Public spaces in literature Women in literature Englisch Frau Motiv Literatur Öffentlicher Raum SUBJECT London (England) -- In literature Subject England -- London London Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781108636407 1108636403 9781108632812 1108632815

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