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Unseasonable youth : modernism, colonialism, and the fiction of development

Title: Unseasonable youth : modernism, colonialism, and the fiction of development / Jed Esty.
Author: Esty, Joshua, 1967-
Publication: New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

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Description

xv, 282 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Modernist literature & culture

Uniform Title

Modernist literature & culture.

Subjects

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction. Scattered souls: the bildungsroman and colonial modernity; after the novel of progress; Kipling's imperial time; genre, history, and the trope of youth; modernist subjectivity and the world-system -- "National-historical time" from Goethe to George Eliot -- Youth/death: Schreiner and Conrad in the contact zone -- Souls of men under capitalism: Wilde, Wells, and the anti-novel -- Tropics of youth in Woolf and Joyce -- Virgins of empire: the antidevelopmental plot in Rhys and Bowen -- Conclusion: alternative modernity and autonomous youth after 1945.

Call Number

JFE 12-2676

ISBN

9780199857968 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0199857962 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2011021174

OCLC

YBP 2011021174

Author

Esty, Joshua, 1967-

Title

Unseasonable youth : modernism, colonialism, and the fiction of development / Jed Esty.

Imprint

New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Series

Modernist literature & culture

Modernist literature & culture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 12-2676

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