Introduction. Victorian and modernist adventures -- 1. Sons and daughters of the late colonialism -- 2. The anxiety of Indian encirclement -- 3. Mongrel figures frozen in contemplative irony -- 4. Naked and veiled geographical violence -- 5. The materialized tower of the past -- Conclusion. Peripheral vision into the 1930s
Summary
This book considers the shifts in aesthetic representation over the period 1885-1930 that coincide both with the rise of literary Modernism and imperialism's high point. If it is no coincidence that the rise of the novel accompanied the expansion of empire in the eighteenth-century, then the historical conditions of fiction as the empire waned are equally pertinent. Peter Childs argues that modernist literary writing should be read in terms of its response and relationship to events overseas and that it should be seen as moving towards an emergent post-colonialism instead of struggling with a
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-147) and index
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