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1 online resource (x, 285 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-275) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
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20th century |
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Modernism (Literature) -- England.
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Modernism (Literature) |
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England. |
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Literature and anthropology -- England -- History -- 20th century.
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Literature and anthropology. |
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History. |
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Literature and society -- England -- History -- 20th century.
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Literature and society. |
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Postcolonialism in literature. |
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Imperialism in literature.
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Imperialism in literature. |
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Nationalism in literature.
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Nationalism in literature. |
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England -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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Intellectual life. |
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1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Esty, Joshua, 1967- Shrinking island. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2004 0691115486 9780691115481 (DLC) 2003043315 (OCoLC)51607281 |
| ISBN |
9781400825745 (electronic book) |
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1400825741 (electronic book) |
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9780691115481 (alkaline paper) |
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0691115486 (alkaline paper) |
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9780691115498 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0691115494 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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