Introduction. Scattered souls: the bildungsroman and colonial modernity; after the novel of progress; Kipling's imperial time; genre, history, and the trope of youth; modernist subjectivity and the world-system -- "National-historical time" from Goethe to George Eliot -- Youth/death: Schreiner and Conrad in the contact zone -- Souls of men under capitalism: Wilde, Wells, and the anti-novel -- Tropics of youth in Woolf and Joyce -- Virgins of empire: the antidevelopmental plot in Rhys and Bowen -- Conclusion: alternative modernity and autonomous youth after 1945
Summary
'Unseasonable Youth' examines a range of modernist-era fictions that cast doubt on the ideology of progress through the figure of stunted or endless adolescence
