Abstract
This thesis explores the modern urban spaces depicted in James Joyce s Ulysses, Christopher Isherwood s Goodbye to Berlin and Jean Rhys s Good Morning Midnight. It focuses especially on the city s mediation through the flâneur, a wandering, observant city figure who for the first time in these late modernist texts can be found outside the previous definition of white, Christian, straight male. The close reading of these texts allows views of Dublin, Berlin and Paris as semi-colonial space-time presences each faring differently from the approaching end of colonialism. My argument is that by investing the figure of the flâneur with non-native, non-imperial power to observe, these late modernist authors re-map their novels cities as multi-vocal spaces, eschewing the binary code of insider/outsider which had reigned since at least the inception of modernity.