Modernism and Colonialism: British and Irish Literature, 1899-1939

by Richard Begam and Begam

This collection of essays by renowned literary scholars offers a sustained and comprehensive account of the relation of British and Irish literary modernism to colonialism. Bringing postcolonial studies into dialogue with modernist studies, the contributors move beyond depoliticized appreciations of modernist aesthetics as well as the dismissal of literary modernism as irredeemably complicit in the evils of colonialism. They demonstrate that the modernists...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822340380
• ISBN13: 9780822340386
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"