The obsolete empire : untimely belonging in twentieth-century British literature /
Tsang, Philip Tai-Hang,
The obsolete empire : untimely belonging in twentieth-century British literature / Philip Tsang. - Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021 - x, 297 pages : illustrations ; - Hopkins studies in modernism .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-287) and index.
The peripheral sense of an ending -- Henry James and the perversity of empire -- James Joyce and negative community -- Doris Lessing and late realism -- V. S. Naipaul and the rhetoric of enchantment.
"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"--
9781421441351 9781421441368
Commonwealth literature (English)
English literature
Belonging (Social psychology) in literature.
Literature and society--Commonwealth countries.
Imperialism in literature.
Postcolonialism--Great Britain.
820.99171241 TSA
The obsolete empire : untimely belonging in twentieth-century British literature / Philip Tsang. - Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021 - x, 297 pages : illustrations ; - Hopkins studies in modernism .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-287) and index.
The peripheral sense of an ending -- Henry James and the perversity of empire -- James Joyce and negative community -- Doris Lessing and late realism -- V. S. Naipaul and the rhetoric of enchantment.
"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"--
9781421441351 9781421441368
Commonwealth literature (English)
English literature
Belonging (Social psychology) in literature.
Literature and society--Commonwealth countries.
Imperialism in literature.
Postcolonialism--Great Britain.
820.99171241 TSA