Modernism and the post-colonial : literature and Empire, 1885-1930 /

Modernism and the post-colonial : literature and Empire, 1885-1930 /

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Author / Creator:	Childs, Peter, 1962-
Imprint:	London ; New York : Continuum, 2007.
Description:	1 online resource (152 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Continuum literary studies series Continuum literary studies.
Subject:	English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism. English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Modernism (Literature) Literature and history -- Commonwealth countries. Imperialism in literature. Colonies in literature. Postcolonialism in literature. Colonies in literature. English fiction. Imperialism in literature. Literature and history. Modernism (Literature) Postcolonialism in literature. Commonwealth countries. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11262839

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ISBN:	9781441135537 1441135537 9781472543134 1472543130 9781283205559 1283205556 9786613205551 6613205559 9780826485588 0826485588
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-147) and index. Restrictions unspecified Unlimited Users and Download Restrictions may Apply, VLEbooks Unlimited User Licence. Available using University of Exeter Username and Password. Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	This book considers the shifts in aesthetic representation over the period 1885-1930 that coincide both with the rise of literary Modernism and imperialism's high point. If it is no coincidence that the rise of the novel accompanied the expansion of empire in the eighteenth-century, then the historical conditions of fiction as the empire waned are equally pertinent. Peter Childs argues that modernist literary writing should be read in terms of its response and relationship to events overseas and that it should be seen as moving towards an emergent post-colonialism instead of struggling with a.
Other form:	Print version: Childs, Peter, 1962- Modernism and the post-colonial. London ; New York : Continuum, 2007 9780826485588
Standard no.:	10.5040/9781472543134

Table of Contents:

Introduction. Victorian and modernist adventures
1. Sons and daughters of the late colonialism
2. The anxiety of Indian encirclement
3. Mongrel figures frozen in contemplative irony
4. Naked and veiled geographical violence
5. The materialized tower of the past
Conclusion. Peripheral vision into the 1930s.