Modernism and empire
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Modernism and empire
Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 2000
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This is the first book to explore the relationship between literary modernism and the British Empire. Contributors look at works from the traditional modernist canon as well as extending the range of work addresses - particularly emphasising texts from the Empire. A key issue raised is whether modernism sprang from a crisis in the colonial system, which it sought to extend, or whether the modern movement was a more sophisticated form of cultural imperialism. The chapters in Modernism and empire show the importance of empire to modernism.
Patrick Williams theorises modernism and empire; Rod Edmond discusses theories of degeneration in imperial and modernist discourse; Helen Carr examines Imagism and empire; Elleke Boehmer compares Leonard Woolf and Yeats; Janet Montefiore writes on Kipling and Orwell, C.L. Innes explores Yeats, Joyce and their implied audiences; Maire Ni Fhlathuin writes on Patrick Pearse and modernism; John Nash considers newspapers, imperialism and Ulysses; Howard J. Booth addresses D.H. Lawrence and otherness; Nigel Rigby discusses Sylvia Townsend Warner and sexuality in the Pacific; Mark Williams explores Mansfield and Maori culture; Abdulrazak Gurnah looks at Karen Blixen, Elspeth Huxley and settler writing; and Bill Ashcroft and John Salter take an inter-disciplinary approach to Australia and 'Modernism's Empire'. -- .
Table 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.
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