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Modernism and the post-colonial : literature and Empire, 1885-1930 /
This book considers the shifts in aesthetic representation over the period 1885-1930 that coincide both with the rise of literary Modernism and imperialism's high point. If it is no coincidence that the rise of the novel accompanied the expansion of empire in the eighteenth-century, then the hi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
2007.
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| Colección: | Continuum literary studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book considers the shifts in aesthetic representation over the period 1885-1930 that coincide both with the rise of literary Modernism and imperialism's high point. If it is no coincidence that the rise of the novel accompanied the expansion of empire in the eighteenth-century, then the historical conditions of fiction as the empire waned are equally pertinent. Peter Childs argues that modernist literary writing should be read in terms of its response and relationship to events overseas and that it should be seen as moving towards an emergent post-colonialism instead of struggling with a. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (152 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-147) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781441135537 1441135537 9781472543134 1472543130 9781283205559 1283205556 9786613205551 6613205559 |
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