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Book SynopsisThe first book to explore the relationship between literary modernism and the British Empire
Table of ContentsIntroduction, Howard J. Booth and Nigel Rigby; "simultaneous uncontemporaneities" - theorizing modernism and empire, Patrick Williams; home and away - degeneration in imperialist and modernist discourse, Rod Edmond; imagism and empire, Helen Carr; "immeasurable strangeness" in imperial times - Leonard Woolf and W.B. Yeats, Elleke Boehmer; Latin, arithmetic and mastery - a reading of two Kipling fictions, Janet Montefiore; modernism, Ireland and empire - Yeats, Joyce and their implied audiences, C.L. Innes; the anti-colonial modernism of Patrick Pearse, Maire ni Fhlathuin; "hanging over the bloody paper" - newspapers and imperialism in "Ulysses", John Nash; Lawrence in doubt - a theory of the "other" and its collapse, Howard J. Booth; "not a good place for deacons" - the South Seas, sexuality and modernism in Sylvia Townsend Warner's "Mr Fortune's Maggot", Nigel Rigby; Mansfield in Maoriland - biculturalism, agency and misreading, Mark Williams; settler writing in Kenya - "nomenclature is an uncertain science in these wild parts", Abdulrazak Gurnah; modernism's empire - Australia and the cultural imperialism of style, Bill Ashcroft.
