A Shrinking Island by Joshua Esty
A comprehensive account of modernism and imperialism in England. It tracks the joint eclipse of modernist aesthetics and British power from the literary experiments of the 1930s through the rise of cultural studies in the 1950s. It explores the effects of declining empire on modernist form - and on the very meaning of Englishness.
"A vital, useful and impressive rereading of the aesthetics and politics of late modernism"--Royce Mahawatte, Times Literary Supplement "Esty's argument ... [is] profoundly stimulating, and is perhaps most convincing when he turns his attention (however briefly) to the writers who followed modernism... [I]t definitely compels us to revise common assumptions about English literature of the last century."--Raphael Ingelbien, Belgian Journal of English Languages and Literature
Jed Esty is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691115498 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691115494 |
| Title | A Shrinking Island |
| Author | Joshua Esty |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 2003-11-30 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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