| Description |
1 online resource (310 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Hopkins studies in modernism
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Hopkins studies in modernism.
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| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Commonwealth literature (English) -- History and criticism.
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Commonwealth literature (English) |
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English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Belonging (Social psychology) in literature.
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Belonging (Social psychology) in literature. |
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Literature and society -- Commonwealth countries.
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Literature and society. |
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Commonwealth countries. |
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Imperialism in literature.
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Imperialism in literature. |
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Postcolonialism -- Great Britain.
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Postcolonialism. |
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Great Britain. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tsang, Philip Tai-Hang, 1986- Obsolete empire. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021 9781421441351 (DLC) 2020057945 (OCoLC)1240306002 |
| ISBN |
9781421441375 (electronic book) |
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1421441373 (electronic book) |
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9781421441351 |
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1421441357 |
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9781421441368 |
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1421441365 |
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