Begam / Moses Modernism and Colonialism

British and Irish Literature, 1899–1939
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9031-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 338 Seiten

Reihe: e-Duke books scholarly collection

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Begam, Richard

Moses, Michael

Weitere Mitwirkende

Daly, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction / Richard Begam and Michael Valdez Moses 1

Part 1: Victorian Backgrounds

1. Colonialism and Popular Literature at the Fin de Siecle / Nicholas Daly 19

Part 2: Modern British Literature

2. Disorientalism: Conrad and the Imperial Origins of Modernist Aesthetics / Michael Valdez Moses 43

3. Virginia Woolf’s Colony and the Adolescence of Modernist Fiction / Jed Esty 70

4. War, “Primitivism,” and the Future of “the West”: Reflections on D.H. Lawrence and Wyndham Lewis / Andrzej Agsiorek 91

5. T.S. Eliot, Late Empire, and Decadence / Vincent Sherry 111

6. Romancing the Stump: Modernism and Colonialism to Forster’s A Passage to India / Brian May 136

7. “A tangle of modernism and barbarity”: Evelyn Waugh’s Black Mischief / Rita Barnard 162

Part 3: Ireland and Scotland

8. Joyce’s Trojan Horse: Ulysses and the Aesthetics of Decolonization / Richard Begam 185

9. Yeats, Spengler, and A Vision after Empire / Nicholas Allen 209

10. Elizabeth Bowen’s Troubled Modernism / Maria DiBattista 226

11. “Upon the thistle they’re impaled”: Hugh MacDiarmid’s Modernist Nationalism / Ian Duncan 246

Part 4: Toward the Postcolonial

12. Postcolonial Modernism? / Declan Kiberd 269

13. Modernist Bricolage, Postcolonial Hybridity / Jahan Ramazani 288

Contributors 315

Index 319

Über Autor(innen)

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.