Threshold modernism :
Evans, Elisabeth, 1973-
Threshold modernism : new public women and the literary spaces of Imperial London / Elizabeth F. Evans. - 1 online resource (xii, 261 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Dec 2018).
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.
9781108632812 (ebook)
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
English literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Women in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Liminality in literature.
Modernism (Literature)--England--London.
London (England)--In literature.
PR468.W6 / E93 2019
820.9928709034
Threshold modernism : new public women and the literary spaces of Imperial London / Elizabeth F. Evans. - 1 online resource (xii, 261 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Dec 2018).
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.
9781108632812 (ebook)
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
English literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Women in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Liminality in literature.
Modernism (Literature)--England--London.
London (England)--In literature.
PR468.W6 / E93 2019
820.9928709034