Modernism and Empire, 1890-1940 : Writing and British Coloniality

by Edited by Howard J. Booth and Rigby Nigel

• ISBN13: 9780719053061
• ISBN10: 0719053064
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2000-06-10
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

This is the first book to explore the fascinating relationship between literary Modernism and Empire. The book seeks to begin the task of exploring, in a sustained way, the relations between the artistic movement and colonialism. The essays range over subjects and figures such as Ireland, Africa, Joyce, Pound, Townsend Warner, Lawrence and Forster, Kipling, Woolf, and Jean Rhys.

Author Biography

Howard J. Booth teaches English at Birkbeck College.

Rigby Nigel is a research fellow at the National Maritime Museum, London.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix
Notes on contributors	x
Introduction	1	(12)
Howard J. Booth
Nigel Rigby
`Simultaneous uncontemporaneities': theorising modernism and empire	13	(26)
Patrick Williams
Home and away: degeneration in imperialist and modernist discourse	39	(25)
Rod Edmond
Imagism and empire	64	(29)
Helen Carr
`Immeasurable strangeness' in imperial times: Leonard Woolf and W. B. Yeats	93	(19)
Elleke Boehmer
Latin, arithmetic and mastery: a reading of two Kipling fictions	112	(25)
Janet Montefiore
Modernism, Ireland and empire: Yeats, Joyce and their implied audiences	137	(19)
C. L. Innes
The anti-colonial modernism of Patrick Pearse	156	(19)
Maire ni Fhlathuin
`Hanging over the bloody paper': newspapers and imperialism in Ulysses	175	(22)
John Nash
Lawrence in doubt: a theory of the `other' and its collapse	197	(27)
Howard J. Booth
`Not a good place for deacons': the South Seas, sexuality and modernism in Sylvia Townsend Warner's Mr Fortune's Maggot	224	(25)
Nigel Rigby
Mansfield in Maoriland: biculturalism, agency and misreading	249	(26)
Mark Williams
Settler writing in Kenya: `Nomenclature is an uncertain science in these wild parts'	275	(17)
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Modernism's empire: Australia and the cultural imperialism of style	292	(32)
Bill Ashcroft
John Salter
Index	324