1st Edition

Rewriting Gender in an Age of Transition 1880-1940

Edited By Katerina García-Walsh, Paul Thompson Copyright 2026
218 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

218 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

218 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Rewriting Gender in an Age of Transition: 1880–1940 examines shifting discourses on gender and sexuality across the fin-de-siècle and early twentieth century. This interdisciplinary collection challenges the conventional divide between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, proposing instead that the period from 1880 to 1940 marks a pivotal era of transition. Through chapters spanning... Read more

 

List of Contributors

 

Introduction

           Katerina García-Walsh and Paul Thompson

 

 

Part I: Identity in Transition

 

Chapter 1: Michael Field’s Transitions

           Holly A. Laird

 

Chapter 2: A Baltic Antinous: Queer Affirmation in Carl Robert Egells’ Rubi (1879)

           Douglas Pretsell

 

Chapter 3: Queer Voyages in Imre: Music and Mobility in the Work of Edward Prime-Stevenson

           Emma Sutton

 

Chapter 4: Reimagining the Erased in an Era of Transfixion

           Paul Thompson

 

 

Part II: Symbols of Self-Fashioning

 

Chapter 5: Gender, Fashion, and Modernity: The Linguistic Construction of Femininity in Early 1920s Harper’s Bazaar

           Annalisa Federici

 

Chapter 6: The Birth of ‘Kodak Girl’ in China: Creating the Modern Woman in Chinese Advertising in the 1920s and 1930s

           Mi Zhou

 

Chapter 7: Queering Normativity: The Poetry and Prose of Amy Levy and John Gambril Nicholson

           Ve-Yin Tee

 

Chapter 8: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Radical Politics: The Entangled Discourses of D.H. Lawrence’s Women in Love

           Jesse Gauthier

 

Chapter 9: ‘Knickers into Nackers’: Gender in Transition in the Autobiographies of Nina Hamnett

Jane Goldman

 

 

Afterword: The Value of ‘Gender’

Claire Nally


Index

Biography

Katerina García-Walsh is a Juan de la Cierva National Postdoctoral Fellow at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. She completed her PhD at the University of St Andrews, UK.

Paul Thompson completed a PhD at the University of St Andrews, UK, and is now an independent researcher in mid twentieth-century popular American literature.