The Problem of the Woman’s Bag from the New Woman to Modernism

in English Literature at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, having finished her PhD at Durham University in 2012. She is completing a monograph on modernism, portability, and the material culture of travel. She has published articles in Kaleidoscope and Textual Practice and has another article forthcoming in Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing. Her next project will explore troubled representations of hospitality in late modernist writing and she is currently coediting (with Jeffrey Clapp) a collection of essays on security and hospitality in modern and contemporary literature. The Problem of the Woman’s Bag from the New Woman to Modernism