The obsolete empire : untimely belonging in twentieth-century British literature /

"This book shows that a large part of the British empire's history took place in the minds of distant readers who were by turns inspired, entranced, and agonized by English literature"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tsang, Philip Tai-Hang, 1986- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.
Colección:Hopkins studies in modernism.
Temas:
1900-1999
Commonwealth literature (English) > History and criticism.
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Belonging (Social psychology) in literature.
Literature and society > Commonwealth countries.
Imperialism in literature.
Postcolonialism > Great Britain.
Littérature du Commonwealth (anglaise) > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Appartenance (Psychologie sociale) dans la littérature.
Littérature et société > Pays du Commonwealth.
Impérialisme dans la littérature.
Postcolonialisme > Grande-Bretagne.
Commonwealth literature (English)
English literature.
Literature and society.
Postcolonialism.
Commonwealth countries.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. The Peripheral Sense of an Ending
  • The Last Colonial
  • The Lateness of Empire
  • Restless Identities, Wayward Communities
  • The Temporality of Belonging
  • 1 Henry James and the Perversity of Empire
  • The Pervert's Guide to England
  • The Making of an Anglo-Saxon Writer
  • An Absent-Minded Imperialist
  • Late America
  • 2 James Joyce and the Negative Community
  • The Law of Sameness
  • Let Them In, Let Him Stay
  • The Unavowable Anthology
  • A House for Mr. Bloom
  • 3 Doris Lessing and Late Realism
  • Permanent Settlement, Imminent Departure
  • In Pursuit of Realism
  • History Is Now and England
  • Living in the End Times
  • 4 V. S. Naipaul and the Rhetoric of Enchantment
  • Knowledge Not Purchased with the Loss of Power
  • The Colonial Phenomenology of Perception
  • L'Enfance Retrouvée
  • A Home at the End of Empire
  • Epilogue. Time of the Other
  • The Politics of Shared Immanence
  • Citizens and Subjects
  • Untimely Worlds
  • Notes
  • Index.

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