Title A shrinking island : modernism and national culture in England / Jed Esty

Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (x, 285 pages) Contents Introduction : late modernism and the anthropological turn -- Modernism and metropolitan perception in England -- Insular rites : Virginia Woolf and the late modernism pageant-play -- Insular time : T.S. Eliot and modernism's English end -- Becoming minor Summary This book describes a major literary culture caught in the act of becoming minor. In 1939, Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary, "Civilisation has shrunk." Her words captured not only the onset of World War II, but also a longer-term reversal of national fortune. The first comprehensive account of modernism and imperialism in England, A Shrinking Island tracks the joint eclipse of modernist aesthetics and British power from the literary experiments of the 1930s through the rise of cultural studies in the 1950s. Jed Esty explores the effects of declining empire on modernist form--and on the very me Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-275) and index Notes Print version record Subject English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Modernism (Literature) -- England Literature and anthropology -- England -- History -- 20th century Literature and society -- England -- History -- 20th century Postcolonialism in literature. Imperialism in literature. Nationalism in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English literature Imperialism in literature Intellectual life Literature and anthropology Literature and society Modernism (Literature) Nationalism in literature Postcolonialism in literature Modernisme (cultuur) Bellettrie. Engels. SUBJECT England -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043305 Subject England Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781400825745 1400825741 9780691115481 0691115486 9780691115498 0691115494

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