Modernism and Colonialism: British and Irish Literature, 1899–1939

Published by Duke University Press 2007

Modernism and Colonialism

British and Irish Literature, 1899–1939

Edited by: Richard Begam and Michael Moses
With contributions by: Nicholas Daly

In the series e-Duke books scholarly collection

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822390312

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About this book

The essays in Modernism and Colonialism offer revisionary accounts of major British and Irish literary modernists relation to colonialism.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

“Modernism and Colonialism is a terrific book—timely, intelligent, capacious, and a pleasure to read.”—Douglas Mao, coeditor of Bad Modernisms

“Modernism and Colonialism 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 Modern Enchantments: The Cultural Power of Secular Magic

“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 The Singularity of Literature

“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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Richard Begam and Michael Valdez Moses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One Victorian Backgrounds
One. Colonialism and Popular Literature at the Fin de Siècle Nicholas Daly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Part Two Modern British Literature
Two. Disorientalism: Conrad and the Imperial Origins of Modernist Aesthetics Michael Valdez Moses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Three. Virginia Woolf ’s Colony and the Adolescence of Modernist Fiction Jed Esty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
Four. War, ‘‘Primitivism,’’ and the Future of ‘‘the West’’: Reflections on D. H. Lawrence and Wyndham Lewis Andrzej Gąsiorek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Five. T. S. Eliot, Late Empire, and Decadence Vincent Sherry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Six. Romancing the Stump: Modernism and Colonialism in Forster’s A Passage to India Brian May Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
Seven. ‘‘A tangle of modernism and barbarity’’: Evelyn Waugh’s Black Mischief Rita Barnard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
Part Three Ireland and Scotland
Eight. Joyce’s Trojan Horse: Ulysses and the Aesthetics of Decolonization Richard Begam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Nine. Yeats, Spengler, and A Vision after Empire Nicholas Allen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Ten. Elizabeth Bowen’s Troubled Modernism Maria DiBattista Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
Eleven. ‘‘Upon the thistle they’re impaled’’: Hugh MacDiarmid’s Modernist Nationalism Ian Duncan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	246
Part Four Toward the Postcolonial
Twelve. Postcolonial Modernism? Declan Kiberd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Thirteen. Modernist Bricolage, Postcolonial Hybridity Jahan Ramazani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	288
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 338

eBook

Published: October 15, 2007
ISBN: 9780822390312