The obsolete empire : untimely belonging in twentieth-century British literature / Philip Tsang.
Material type: TextSeries: Hopkins studies in modernismPublication details: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021Description: x, 297 pages : illustrationsISBN:- 9781421441351
- 9781421441368
- 820.99171241 TSA
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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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