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Unseasonable youth : modernism, colonialism, and the fiction of development / Jed Esty.
Van Pelt Library PR878.M63 E77 2012
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Van Pelt Library PR878.M63 E77 2012
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Esty, Joshua, 1967-
- Series:
- Modernist literature & culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Great Britain.
- Bildungsromans, English--History and criticism.
- Bildungsromans, English.
- Youth in literature.
- Adolescence in literature.
- Progress in literature.
- Colonies in literature.
- Imperialism in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 282 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- Introduction. Scattered souls: the bildungsroman and colonial modernity; after the novel of progress; Kipling's imperial time; genre, history, and the trope of youth; modernist subjectivity and the world-system
- "National-historical time" from Goethe to George Eliot
- Youth/death: Schreiner and Conrad in the contact zone
- Souls of men under capitalism: Wilde, Wells, and the anti-novel
- Tropics of youth in Woolf and Joyce
- Virgins of empire: the antidevelopmental plot in Rhys and Bowen
- Conclusion: alternative modernity and autonomous youth after 1945.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199857968
- 0199857962
- OCLC:
- 727610608
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