Archipelagic modernism : literature in the Irish and British Isles, 1890-1970 / John Brannigan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brannigan, John, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

Islands in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Examines the anglophone literatures of the archipelago from 1890 to 1970 for what they tell us about changing identities, geographies, and ecologies. The book argues that these literatures constitute an important resource for how we might begin to think about alternative political geographies, and alternative practices of belonging to place and environment. From the height of the British Empire in 1890, to the increasing sense by 1970 of the imminent 'break-up' of Britain, 'archipelagic modernism' turned to the 'peripheral' spaces of islands, coastlines, and the sea to re-invent the Irish and British archipelago as a plural and connective space.--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: After London

Folk revivals and island Utopias

James Joyce and the Irish Sea

Virginia Woolf and the geographical subject

Literary topographies of a northern archipelago

Social bonds and gendered borders in late modernism

Epilogue: Coasting.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-278) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780748643370

0748643370

OCLC:

1306537945