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The obsolete empire : untimely belonging in twentieth-century British literature / Philip Tsang.
Van Pelt Library PR9080.5 .T78 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tsang, Philip Tai-Hang, 1986- author.
- Series:
- Hopkins studies in modernism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Commonwealth literature (English)--History and criticism.
- Commonwealth literature (English).
- English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Belonging (Social psychology) in literature.
- Literature and society--Commonwealth countries.
- Literature and society.
- Imperialism in literature.
- Postcolonialism--Great Britain.
- Postcolonialism.
- Commonwealth countries.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- x, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- "This book shows that a large part of the British empire's history took place in the minds of distant readers who were by turns inspired, entranced, and agonized by English literature"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: The Last Colonial
- The Lateness of Empire
- Restless Identities, Wayward Communities
- The Temporality of Belonging
- 1. Henry James and the Perversity of Empire
- The Pervert's Guide to England
- The Making of an Anglo-Saxon Writer
- An Absent-Minded Imperialist
- Late America
- 2. James Joyce and the Negative Community
- The Law of Sameness
- Let Them In, Let Him Stay
- The Unavowable Anthology
- A House for Mr. Bloom
- 3. Doris Lessing and Late Realism
- Permanent Settlement, Imminent Departure
- In Pursuit of Realism
- History Is Now and England
- Living in the End Times
- 4. V. S. Naipaul and the Rhetoric of Enchantment
- Knowledge Not Purchased with the Loss of Power
- The Colonial Phenomenology of Perception
- L'Enfance Retrouvee
- A Home at the End of Empire
- Epilogue. Time of the Other
- The Politics of Shared Immanence
- Citizens and Subjects
- Untimely Worlds.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781421441351
- 1421441357
- 9781421441368
- 1421441365
- OCLC:
- 1240306002
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