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The modernist novel and the decline of empire /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The modernist novel and the decline of empire // John Marx.
remainder title:	The Modernist Novel & the Decline of Empire
Author:	Marx, John,
Description:	1 online resource (vii, 226 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	English fiction - History and criticism. - 20th century -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511485169
ISBN:	9780511485169 (ebook)

The modernist novel and the decline of empire /
Marx, John,

The modernist novel and the decline of empire /The Modernist Novel & the Decline of EmpireJohn Marx. - 1 online resource (vii, 226 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Introduction : the decline of Britain and the rise of England -- 1. Conrad's gout -- 2. Sentimental administration -- 3. Gender, aesthetics, and colonial expertise -- 4. The domestic life of primitivism -- 5. Local authority after empire.

In the early twentieth century, subjects of the British Empire ceased to rely on a model of centre and periphery in imagining their world and came instead to view it as an interconnected network of cosmopolitan people and places. English language and literature were promoted as essential components of a commercial, cultural, and linguistic network that spanned the globe. John Marx argues that the early twentieth century was a key moment in the emergence of modern globalization, rather than simply a period of British imperial decline. Modernist fiction was actively engaged in this transformation of society on an international scale. The very stylistic abstraction that seemed to remove modernism from social reality, in fact internationalized the English language. Rather than mapping the decline of Empire, modernist novelists such as Conrad and Woolf celebrated the shared culture of the English language as more important than the waning imperial structures of Britain.

ISBN: 9780511485169 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

559954
English fiction
--History and criticism.--20th century

LC Class. No.: PR888.I54 / M37 2005

Dewey Class. No.: 823.91209112

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