Modernism in the Metrocolony - Urban Cultures of Empire in Twentieth-Century Literature

This book considers the place of the British colonial city in modernist fiction. While modernism is often linked to the cultural transformations of the Euro-American metropolis, Modernism in the Metrocolony shows how writers responded to empire's urban legacies, tracing an alternative, peripheral history of the modernist city.

List of contents

1. Metrocolonial modernism; 2. Architectures of free trade in Conrad's Singapore; 3. Synchronising empire time in Joyce's Dublin; 4. Anglo-Indian crises of development; 5. Ecologies of empire in Oceanian modernism; Conclusion: Mega-Dublins.

About the author

Caitlin Vandertop is Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick. A former lecturer at the University of the South Pacific and research assistant at the University of Hong Kong, her work on modernism and colonial urban culture has been published in journals including Modern Fiction Studies, Textual Practice, Novel, Journal of Postcolonial Writing and Interventions.

Summary

This book considers the place of the British colonial city in modernist fiction. While modernism is often linked to the cultural transformations of the Euro-American metropolis, Modernism in the Metrocolony shows how writers responded to empire's urban legacies, tracing an alternative, peripheral history of the modernist city.

Product details

• Authors: Vandertop Caitlin Vandertop, Caitlin Vandertop, Caitlin (University of the South Pacifi Vandertop
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781108835626
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83562-6
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Cultural Studies, FICTION / Literary, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form