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- Condition
- Pages
- 312
- Publication Date
- 2021-11-02
- Subject Area
- Literary Criticism
- Book Title
- The Obsolete Empire: Untimely Belonging in Twentieth-Century Brit
- Personalized
- No
- Subject
- Modern / 20th Century, Semiotics & Theory, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- ISBN
- 9781421441368
- Publication Name
- Obsolete Empire : Untimely Belonging in Twentieth-Century British Literature
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Series
- Hopkins Studies in Modernism Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Item Weight
- 16 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 312 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
1421441365
ISBN-13
9781421441368
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6050097850
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
312 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Obsolete Empire : Untimely Belonging in Twentieth-Century British Literature
Publication Year
2021
Subject
Modern / 20th Century, Semiotics & Theory, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Series
Hopkins Studies in Modernism Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2020-057945
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
" The Obsolete Empire makes a quietly insistent case for the power of literature to shape our habitation in the world, for good or ill."?Paul Stasi, SUNY Albany, author of Modernism, Imperialism and the Historical Sense
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
820.99171241
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction. The Peripheral Sense of an Ending Chapter One. Henry James and the Perversity of Empire Chapter Two. James Joyce and the Negative Community Chapter Three. Doris Lessing and Late Realism Chapter Four. V. S. Naipaul and the Rhetoric of Enchantment Epilogue. Time of the Other Notes Index
Synopsis
Ultimately, The Obsolete Empire asks: What does it mean to be inside or outside any given culture? How do large-scale geopolitical changes play out at the level of cultural attachment and political belonging? How does literary reading establish or unsettle narratives of who we are? These questions preoccupied writers across Britain's former empire ......, Modernist literature at the end of the British empire challenges conventional notions of homeland, heritage, and community. Finalist of the MSA First Book Prize by The Modernist Studies Association The waning British empire left behind an abundance of material relics and an inventory of feelings not easily relinquished. In The Obsolete Empire , Philip Tsang brings together an unusual constellation of writers--Henry James, James Joyce, Doris Lessing, and V. S. Naipaul--to trace an aesthetics of frustrated attachment that emerged in the wake of imperial decline. Caught between an expansive Britishness and an exclusive Englishness, these writers explored what it meant to belong to an empire that did not belong to them. Thanks to their voracious reading of English fiction and poetry in their formative years, all of these writers experienced a richly textured world with which they deeply identified but from which they felt excluded. The literary England they imagined, frozen in time and out of place with the realities of imperial decline, in turn figures in their writings as a repository of unconsummated attachments, contradictory desires, and belated exchanges. Their works arrest the linear progression from colonial to postcolonial, from empire to nation, and from subject to citizen. Drawing on a rich body of scholarship on affect and temporality, Tsang demonstrates how the British empire endures as a structure of desire that outlived its political lifespan. By showing how literary reading sets in motion a tense interplay of intimacy and exclusion, Tsang investigates a unique mode of belonging arising from the predicament of being conscripted into a global empire but not desired as its proper citizen. Ultimately, The Obsolete Empire asks: What does it mean to be inside or outside any given culture? How do large-scale geopolitical changes play out at the level of cultural attachment and political belonging? How does literary reading establish or unsettle narratives of who we are? These questions preoccupied writers across Britain's former empire and continue to resonate today., Modernist literature at the end of the British empire challenges conventional notions of homeland, heritage, and community. The waning British empire left behind an abundance of material relics and an inventory of feelings not easily relinquished. In The Obsolete Empire, Philip Tsang brings together an unusual constellation of writers-Henry James, James Joyce, Doris Lessing, and V. S. Naipaul-to trace an aesthetics of frustrated attachment that emerged in the wake of imperial decline. Caught between an expansive Britishness and an exclusive Englishness, these writers explored what it meant to belong to an empire that did not belong to them. Thanks to their voracious reading of English fiction and poetry in their formative years, all of these writers experienced a richly textured world with which they deeply identified but from which they felt excluded. The literary England they imagined, frozen in time and out of place with the realities of imperial decline, in turn figures in their writings as a repository of unconsummated attachments, contradictory desires, and belated exchanges. Their works arrest the linear progression from colonial to postcolonial, from empire to nation, and from subject to citizen. Drawing on a rich body of scholarship on affect and temporality, Tsang demonstrates how the British empire endures as a structure of desire that outlived its political lifespan. By showing how literary reading sets in motion a tense interplay of intimacy and exclusion, Tsang investigates a unique mode of belonging arising from the predicament of being conscripted into a global empire but not desired as its proper citizen. Ultimately, The Obsolete Empire asks: What does it mean to be inside or outside any given culture? How do large-scale geopolitical changes play out at the level of cultural attachment and political belonging? How does literary reading establish or unsettle narratives of who we are? These questions preoccupied writers across Britain's former empire and continue to resonate today.
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PR9080.5.T78 2021
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