The obsolete empire : untimely belonging in twentieth-century British literature / Philip Tsang.

By:

Tsang, Philip Tai-Hang

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Hopkins studies in modernismPublication details: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021Description: x, 297 pages : illustrationsISBN:

9781421441351
9781421441368

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DDC classification:

820.99171241 TSA

Partial contents:

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.

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"--

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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"--

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