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Author:

Brannigan, John, author.

Title:

Archipelagic modernism : literature in the Irish and British Isles, 1890-1970 / John Brannigan.

Publisher:

Edinburgh University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

viii, 288 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Islands in literature.
English fiction.
Islands in literature.
Englisch.
Literatur.
Raum.
Britische Inseln.
Irland.
1800 - 1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-278) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: After London -- Folk revivals and island Utopias -- James Joyce and the Irish Sea -- Virginia Woolf and the geographical subject -- Literary topographies of a northern archipelago -- Social bonds and gendered borders in late modernism -- Epilogue: Coasting.

Summary:

Examines the anglophone literatures of the archipelago from 1890 to 1970 for what they tell us about changing identities, geographies, and ecologies. The book argues that these literatures constitute an important resource for how we might begin to think about alternative political geographies, and alternative practices of belonging to place and environment. From the height of the British Empire in 1890, to the increasing sense by 1970 of the imminent 'break-up' of Britain, 'archipelagic modernism' turned to the 'peripheral' spaces of islands, coastlines, and the sea to re-invent the Irish and British archipelago as a plural and connective space.--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0748643354
9780748643356
9780748643363
0748643362

OCLC:

(OCoLC)898842468

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)