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Title Modernism and colonialism : British and Irish literature, 1899-1939 / edited by Richard Begam & Michael Valdez Moses
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 326 pages)
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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
Summary The essays in Modernism and Colonialism offer revisionary accounts of major British and Irish literary modernists relation to colonialism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism
Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Imperialism in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature
English literature -- Irish authors
Imperialism in literature
Modernism (Literature)
Politics and literature
Englisch
Moderne
Imperialismus Motiv
Literatur
Englische Literatur -- Modernismus.
Englische Literatur -- Irland -- Modernismus.
Kolonialismus -- Literatur -- Englisch -- Geschichte -- 1899-1939 -- Aufsatzsammlung.
Literatur -- Englisch -- Imperialismus -- Geschichte -- 1899-1939 -- Aufsatzsammlung.
Imperialismus -- Literatur -- Englisch -- Geschichte -- 1899-1939 -- Aufsatzsammlung.
Literatur -- Englisch -- Kolonialismus -- Geschichte -- 1899-1939 -- Aufsatzsammlung.
Modernism (litteratur) -- Storbritannien.
Engelsk litteratur -- historia -- 1900-talet.
Irländsk litteratur -- historia -- 1900-talet.
Litteratur och politik -- historia -- Storbritannien -- 1900-talet.
Imperialism i litteraturen.
Kolonialismus <Motiv>
Imperialismus <Motiv>
Great Britain
Irland
Englisch.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Begam, Richard, 1950-
Moses, Michael Valdez, 1957-
ISBN 9780822390312
0822390310