Elizabeth F. Evans teaches in the Department of English and the Program in Gender Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. She specializes in British and Anglophone literature of the long twentieth century, with particular attention to modernism. She is the coeditor of Woolf and the City (2010) and has published in Modern Fiction Studies, Literature Compass, and Cultural Analytics and in edited collections on Amy Levy, George Gissing, and Virginia Woolf.
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 Flânerie
4. Women's clubs and clubwomen: 'neutral territory', feminist heterotopia, and failed 'diplomacy'
5. New public women through colonial eyes: reverse imperial ethnography
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