Threshold Modernism

Threshold Modernism

New Public Women and the Literary Spaces of Imperial London

Evans, Elizabeth F.

Cambridge University Press

12/2018

280

Dura

Inglês

9781108479813

15 a 20 dias

580

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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 Flanerie; 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.