TY  - BOOK
AU  - Evans,Elisabeth
TI  - Threshold modernism: new public women and the literary spaces of Imperial London 
SN  - 9781108632812 (ebook)
AV  - PR468.W6 E93 2019
U1  - 820.9928709034 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - English literature
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Women in literature
KW  - Sex role in literature
KW  - Liminality in literature
KW  - Modernism (Literature)
KW  - England
KW  - London
KW  - London (England)
KW  - In literature
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Dec 2018)
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108632812
ER  -