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

'Threshold Modernism' reveals how changing ideas about gender and race in late 19th- and early 20th-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 co-evolved with controversial types of modern women.

Interweaving cultural history, narrative theory, close reading, and spatial analysis, the book 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.