Modernism and Empire - Writing and British Coloniality, 1890–1940

The first book to explore the relationship between literary modernism and the British Empire

List of contents

Introduction, 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.

About the author

Howard J. Booth is Lecturer in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Literature and Culture at Birkbeck College, University of London

Nigel Rigby is Head of Research at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

Product details

• Authors: Booth J.
• Assisted by: Howard Booth (Editor), Howard J. Booth (Editor), Booth Howard (Editor), Nigel Rigby (Editor), Rigby Nigel (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.04.2000
• EAN: 9780719053078
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-5307-8
• No. of pages: 356
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 216 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 449 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > History; English, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Colonialism & imperialism, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Colonialism and imperialism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence