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- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2014
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Nationalism in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Literature and society > England > History > 20th century.
Literature and anthropology > England > History > 20th century.
Modernism (Literature) > England.
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
England > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Electronic books.
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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