{"product_id":"modernism-and-colonialism-9780822340386","title":"Modernism and Colonialism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe essays in \u003ci\u003eModernism and Colonialism \u003c\/i\u003e offer revisionary accounts of major British and Irish literary modernists relation to colonialism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eModernism and Colonialism\u003c\/i\u003e is a terrific book—timely, intelligent, capacious, and a pleasure to read.”—Douglas Mao, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eBad Modernisms\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eModernism and Colonialism\u003c\/i\u003e will have a real impact on the fields of postcolonial studies and British modernism. It succeeds in treating colonialism as a condition of possibility for a vibrant British-transnational modernism.”—Simon During, author of \u003ci\u003eModern Enchantments: The Cultural Power of Secular Magic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The subject of this collection—the relation between modernism, understood especially in terms of formal innovation and self-reflexivity, and the historical phenomenon of British colonialism and of resistance to colonialism—is an important and timely one that has received remarkably little attention.”—Derek Attridge, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Singularity of Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The editors are to be commended not only for persuading such an exciting and well-regarded group of scholars to contribute to this collection but also for structuring the collection so wisely. The essays range widely enough among topics of study to underscore the diverse ways in which modernists and modernist texts engaged with colonial questions, but a genuine, seemingly effortless dialogue unfolds among the essays.” -- Paige Reynolds * Journal of British Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Richard Begam and Michael Valdez Moses 1\u003cbr\u003e Part 1: Victorian Backgrounds \u003cbr\u003e 1. Colonialism and Popular Literature at the Fin de Siecle \/ Nicholas Daly 19\u003cbr\u003e Part 2: Modern British Literature \u003cbr\u003e 2. Disorientalism: Conrad and the Imperial Origins of Modernist Aesthetics \/ Michael Valdez Moses 43\u003cbr\u003e 3. Virginia Woolf’s Colony and the Adolescence of Modernist Fiction \/ Jed Esty 70\u003cbr\u003e 4. War, “Primitivism,” and the Future of “the West”: Reflections on D.H. Lawrence and Wyndham Lewis \/ Andrzej Agsiorek 91\u003cbr\u003e 5. T.S. Eliot, Late Empire, and Decadence \/ Vincent Sherry 111\u003cbr\u003e 6. Romancing the Stump: Modernism and Colonialism to Forster’s \u003ci\u003eA Passage to India\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Brian May 136\u003cbr\u003e 7. “A tangle of modernism and barbarity”: Evelyn Waugh’s \u003ci\u003eBlack Mischief \u003c\/i\u003e\/ Rita Barnard 162\u003cbr\u003e Part 3: Ireland and Scotland \u003cbr\u003e 8. Joyce’s Trojan Horse: \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e and the Aesthetics of Decolonization \/ Richard Begam 185\u003cbr\u003e 9. Yeats, Spengler, and \u003ci\u003eA Vision \u003c\/i\u003eafter Empire \/ Nicholas Allen 209\u003cbr\u003e 10. Elizabeth Bowen’s Troubled Modernism \/ Maria DiBattista 226\u003cbr\u003e 11. “Upon the thistle they’re impaled”: Hugh MacDiarmid’s Modernist Nationalism \/ Ian Duncan 246\u003cbr\u003e Part 4: Toward the Postcolonial \u003cbr\u003e 12. Postcolonial Modernism? \/ Declan Kiberd 269\u003cbr\u003e 13. Modernist Bricolage, Postcolonial Hybridity \/ Jahan Ramazani 288\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 315\u003cbr\u003e Index 319","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406047093079,"sku":"9780822340386","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822340386.jpg?v=1730494356","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/modernism-and-colonialism-9780822340386","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}