Modernism, Empire, World Literature

by Joe Cleary

After World War I, American, Irish and then Caribbean writers boldly remade the world literary system long dominated by Paris and London. Responding to literary renaissances and social upheavals in their own countries and to the decline of war-devastated Europe, migr and domestic-based writers produced dazzling new works that challenged London's or Paris's authority to fix and determine literary value. In so doing, they propounded new conceptions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108492355
• ISBN13: 9781108492355
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.8" x 9.2"