Esty A Shrinking Island

Modernism and National Culture in England
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2574-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

Jed Esty is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Esty, Joshua

Esty, Jed

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix

INTRODUCTION

Late Modernism and the Anthropological Turn 1

ONE

Modernism and Metropolitan Perception in England 23

The Other Side of the Hedge 23

"A Planet Full of Scraps" 28

Englishness as/vs.Modernity 31

Autoethnography and the Romance of Retrenchment 36

Modernist Valedictions circa 1940 46

TWO

Insular Rites: Virginia Woolf and the Late Modernist Pageant-Play 54

Amnesia in Fancy Dress: Pageants for a New Century 56

"A Little Nucleus of Eternity ": J. C. Powys's A Glastonbury Romance 62

Rebuilding the Ruined House: T. S. Eliot's The Rock 70

"Innocent Island ": E.M. Forster's Passage to England 76

Island Stories and Modernist Ends in Between the Acts 85

THREE

Insular Time: T.S. Eliot and Modernism's English End 108

The Antidiasporic Imagination 108

Metropolitan Standard Time 112

Anglocentric Revivals 117

Notes from a Shrinking Island 127

Four Quartets and the Chronotope of Englishness 135

FOUR

Becoming Minor 163

The Keynesian National Object: Late Modernism and The General Theory 166

Local Color: English Cultural Studies as Home Anthropology 182

Ethnography in Reverse:(Post)colonial Writers in Fifties England 198

Conclusion: Minority Culture and Minor Culture 215

NOTES 227

INDEX 277

Über Autor(innen)

Jed Esty is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.