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Informationen zum Autor Richard Begam is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of Samuel Beckett and the End of Modernity.Michael Valdez Moses is Associate Professor of English at Duke University. He is the author of The Novel and the Globalization of Culture. Klappentext Brings together a collection of works by eminent scholars in the field of British and Irish literature to challenge the view that the ideology of modernism along with colonialism aided and abetted empire. Zusammenfassung The essays in Modernism and Colonialism offer revisionary accounts of major British and Irish literary modernists relation to colonialism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction / Richard Begam and Michael Valdez Moses 1 Part 1: Victorian Backgrounds 1. Colonialism and Popular Literature at the Fin de Siecle / Nicholas Daly 19 Part 2: Modern British Literature 2. Disorientalism: Conrad and the Imperial Origins of Modernist Aesthetics / Michael Valdez Moses 43 3. Virginia Woolf’s Colony and the Adolescence of Modernist Fiction / Jed Esty 70 4. War, “Primitivism,” and the Future of “the West”: Reflections on D.H. Lawrence and Wyndham Lewis / Andrzej Agsiorek 91 5. T.S. Eliot, Late Empire, and Decadence / Vincent Sherry 111 6. Romancing the Stump: Modernism and Colonialism to Forster’s A Passage to India / Brian May 136 7. “A tangle of modernism and barbarity”: Evelyn Waugh’s Black Mischief / Rita Barnard 162 Part 3: Ireland and Scotland 8. Joyce’s Trojan Horse: Ulysses and the Aesthetics of Decolonization / Richard Begam 185 9. Yeats, Spengler, and A Vision after Empire / Nicholas Allen 209 10. Elizabeth Bowen’s Troubled Modernism / Maria DiBattista 226 11. “Upon the thistle they’re impaled”: Hugh MacDiarmid’s Modernist Nationalism / Ian Duncan 246 Part 4: Toward the Postcolonial 12. Postcolonial Modernism? / Declan Kiberd 269 13. Modernist Bricolage, Postcolonial Hybridity / Jahan Ramazani 288 Contributors 315 Index 319...
