Introduction: Places of Rest -- I. Nature's Reserves: Rural Exhaustion, Inertia, and Generative Aesthetics -- II. Urban Environs: James Joyce and the Politics of Shared Atmosphere -- III. Waste Lands: Dark Pastoral in T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, and Djuna Barnes -- IV. Uprooting Empire: Jean Rhys and Unrest in Imperial Centers -- V. Decolonizing Ecology: Chinua Achebe's New Forms of Unease -- Conclusion: The Limits of Modernist Regeneration.
Summary:
"Surveying the state of literature in the 1930s, E. M. Forster is nostalgic for the relative peace of the Edwardian England of his youth. He paints a picture of the modern world as one without rest, fixity, or security. This characterization of modernity is a common one. Always on the move, ever-expanding, always innovating, the modernist knows no bounds. Forster admits that restlessness gives the modern era its identity, but he frankly finds such a world exhausting"-- Provided by publisher.
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