Title Modernism and the post-colonial : literature and Empire, 1885-1930 / Peter Childs.

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London ; New York : Continuum, 2007.

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Description	1 online resource (152 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Continuum literary studies series
	Continuum literary studies.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-147) and index.
Contents	Introduction. Victorian and modernist adventures -- 1. Sons and daughters of the late colonialism -- 2. The anxiety of Indian encirclement -- 3. Mongrel figures frozen in contemplative irony -- 4. Naked and veiled geographical violence -- 5. The materialized tower of the past -- Conclusion. Peripheral vision into the 1930s.
Summary	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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Subject	English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
	English fiction.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Modernism (Literature)
	Modernism (Literature)
	Literature and history -- Commonwealth countries.
	Literature and history.
	Commonwealth countries.
	Imperialism in literature.
	Imperialism in literature.
	Colonies in literature.
	Colonies in literature.
	Postcolonialism in literature.
	Postcolonialism in literature.
Chronological Term	Geschichte 1885-1930
	1800-1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form:	Print version: Childs, Peter, 1962- Modernism and the post-colonial. London ; New York : Continuum, 2007 9780826485588 (DLC) 2007281398 (OCoLC)85829534
ISBN	9781441135537 (electronic book)
	1441135537 (electronic book)
	9780826485588
	0826485588

Title Modernism and the post-colonial : literature and Empire, 1885-1930 / Peter Childs.

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