A shrinking island : modernism and national culture in England /

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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 accou...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Esty, Joshua, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2004.
Temas:
1900-1999
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.
Littérature anglaise > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Modernisme (Littérature) > Angleterre.
Littérature et anthropologie > Angleterre > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Littérature et société > Angleterre > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Postcolonialisme dans la littérature.
Impérialisme dans la littérature.
Nationalisme dans la littérature.
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.
England > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Angleterre > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siècle.
England
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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