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Author:

Esty, Joshua, 1967-

Title:

A shrinking island : modernism and national culture in England / Jed Esty.

Publisher:

Princeton University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

x, 285 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature)--England.
Literature and anthropology--England--History--20th century.
Literature and society--England--History--20th century.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Nationalism in literature.
England--Intellectual life--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-275) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : late modernism and the anthropological turn -- Modernism and metropolitan perception in England -- Insular rites : Virginia Woolf and the late modernism pageant-play -- Insular time : T.S. Eliot and modernism's English end -- Becoming minor.

ISBN:

9780691115498 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0691115494 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780691115481 (alk. paper)
0691115486 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)51607281

LCCN:

2003043315

Locations:

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

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)