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Modernism and colonialism : British and Irish literature, 1899-1939 / edited by Richard Begam & Michael Valdez Moses.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
- Modernism (Literature).
- English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--Irish authors--History and criticism.
- Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Politics and literature.
- Imperialism in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (339 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The essays in Modernism and Colonialism offer revisionary accounts of major British and Irish literary modernists relation to colonialism.
- Contents:
- Colonialism and popular culture at the fin de siecle / Nicholas Daly
- Disorientalism: Conrad and the imperial origins of modernist aesthetics / Michael Valdez Moses
- Virginia Woolf's colony and the adolescence of modernist fiction / Jed Esty
- War, "primitivism," and the future of "the west": reflections on D.H. Lawrence and Wyndham Lewis / Andrzej Gasiorek
- T.S. Eliot, late empire, and decadence / Vincent Sherry
- Romancing the stump: modernism and colonialism in Forester's A passage to India / Brian May
- "A tangle of modernism and barbarity": Evelyn Waugh's Black Mischief / Rita Barnard
- Joyce's Trojan horse: Ulysses and the Aesthetics of decolonization / Richard Begam
- Yeats, Spengler, and A vision after empire / Nicholas Allen
- Elizabeth Bowen's troubled modernism / Maria DiBattista
- "Upon the thistle they're impaled": Hugh MacDiarmid's modernist nationalism / Ian Duncan
- Postcolonial modernism? / Declan Kiberd
- Modernist bricolage, postcolonial hybridity / Jahan Ramazani.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613035516
- 9781283035514
- 1283035510
- 9780822390312
- 0822390310
- OCLC:
- 262341004
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