Unseasonable youth : modernism, colonialism, and the fiction of development

Author(s)

• Esty, Joshua D. (Dwight)

Bibliographic Information

Unseasonable youth : modernism, colonialism, and the fiction of development

Jed Esty

（Modernist literature & culture / Kevin J.H. Dettmar & Masrk Wollaeger, series editors）

Oxford University Press, c2012

• : hbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

• Introduction. Scattered souls: the bildungsroman and colonial modernity; after the novel of progress; Kipling's imperial time; genre, history, and the trope of youth; modernist subjectivity and the world-system
• "National-historical time" from Goethe to George Eliot
• Youth/death: Schreiner and Conrad in the contact zone
• Souls of men under capitalism: Wilde, Wells, and the anti-novel
• Tropics of youth in Woolf and Joyce
• Virgins of empire: the antidevelopmental plot in Rhys and Bowen
• Conclusion: alternative modernity and autonomous youth after 1945

Details

• NCID: BB07303384
• ISBN:
  • 9780199857968
• LCCN: 2011021174
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 282 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR878.M63
  • DC23 : 823/.1009
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain
  • LCSH : Bildungsromans, English -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Youth in literature
  • LCSH : Adolescence in literature
  • LCSH : Progress in literature
  • LCSH : Colonies in literature
  • LCSH : Imperialism in literature
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA88850295