Modernism, Imperialism and the Historical Sense

ISBN-13: 9781009415286 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 198 str.

State University of N University at Albany Paul (Professor

Opis

This book provides a re-reading of canonical modernism, connecting it to imperialism without conflating it with imperialist practices.

Recenzje

'[A] handsomely-produced book …' David Pierce, James Joyce Broadsheet

Spis treści

Acknowledgments; Introduction: imperial structures of feeling; 1. The persistence of the past: modernism vs. imperial time; 2. The Waste Land and the unreal center of capitalist modernity; 3. Cosmopolitan kulchur: The Cantos as world literature; 4. Turning production into consumption: Ulysses and the construction of postcolonial agency; 5. 'Moments of pride in England': Virginia Woolf and the forms of national subjectivity; Coda: the Edwardian lumber room; Notes.