Modernism in the Metrocolony
Urban Cultures of Empire in Twentieth-Century Literature
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2020
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-83562-6 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-83562-6 (ISBN)
This book considers the place of the British colonial city in modernist fiction. While modernism is often linked to the cultural transformations of the Euro-American metropolis, Modernism in the Metrocolony shows how writers responded to empire's urban legacies, tracing an alternative, peripheral history of the modernist city.
While literary modernism is often associated with Euro-American metropolises such as London, Paris or New York, this book considers the place of the colonial city in modernist fiction. From the streets of Dublin to the shop-houses of Singapore, and from the botanical gardens of Bombay to the suburbs of Suva, the monumental landscapes of British colonial cities aimed to reinforce empire's universalising claims, yet these spaces also contradicted and resisted the impositions of an idealised English culture. Inspired by the uneven landscapes of the urban British empire, a group of twentieth-century writers transformed the visual incongruities and anachronisms on display in the city streets into sources of critique and formal innovation. Showing how these writers responded to empire's metrocolonial complexities and built legacies, Modernism in the Metrocolony traces an alternative, peripheral history of the modernist city.
While literary modernism is often associated with Euro-American metropolises such as London, Paris or New York, this book considers the place of the colonial city in modernist fiction. From the streets of Dublin to the shop-houses of Singapore, and from the botanical gardens of Bombay to the suburbs of Suva, the monumental landscapes of British colonial cities aimed to reinforce empire's universalising claims, yet these spaces also contradicted and resisted the impositions of an idealised English culture. Inspired by the uneven landscapes of the urban British empire, a group of twentieth-century writers transformed the visual incongruities and anachronisms on display in the city streets into sources of critique and formal innovation. Showing how these writers responded to empire's metrocolonial complexities and built legacies, Modernism in the Metrocolony traces an alternative, peripheral history of the modernist city.
Caitlin Vandertop is Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick. A former lecturer at the University of the South Pacific and research assistant at the University of Hong Kong, her work on modernism and colonial urban culture has been published in journals including Modern Fiction Studies, Textual Practice, Novel, Journal of Postcolonial Writing and Interventions.
1. Metrocolonial modernism; 2. Architectures of free trade in Conrad's Singapore; 3. Synchronising empire time in Joyce's Dublin; 4. Anglo-Indian crises of development; 5. Ecologies of empire in Oceanian modernism; Conclusion: Mega-Dublins.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.11.2020 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 240 mm |
| Gewicht | 450 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-108-83562-7 / 1108835627 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-108-83562-6 / 9781108835626 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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