Modernism and the Post-Colonial: Literature and Empire 1885-1930

by Peter Childs

This book considers the shifts in aesthetic representation over the period 1885-1930 that coincide both with the rise of literary Modernism and imperialism's high point. If it is no coincidence that the rise of the novel accompanied the expansion of empire in the eighteenth-century, then the historical conditions of fiction as the empire waned are equally pertinent. Peter Childs argues that modernist literary writing should be read in terms of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826485588
• ISBN13: 9780826485588
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.5"