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Author:

Tsang, Philip Tai-Hang, 1986- author.

Title:

The obsolete empire : untimely belonging in twentieth-century British literature / Philip Tsang.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

x, 297 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

1900-1999
Commonwealth literature (English)--History and criticism.
English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Belonging (Social psychology) in literature.
Literature and society--Commonwealth countries.
Imperialism in literature.
Postcolonialism--Great Britain.
Belonging (Social psychology) in literature.
Commonwealth literature (English)
English literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Literature and society.
Postcolonialism.
Commonwealth countries.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The peripheral sense of an ending -- Henry James and the perversity of empire -- James Joyce and negative community -- Doris Lessing and late realism -- V.S. Naipaul and the rhetoric of enchantment -- Epilogue: time of the other.

Summary:

"This book shows that a large part of the British empire's history took place in the minds of distant readers who were by turns inspired, entranced, and agonized by English literature"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Hopkins studies in modernism

ISBN:

1421441365
9781421441368
1421441357
9781421441351

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1240306002

LCCN:

2020057945

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)