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Colonial odysseys : empire and epic in the modernist novel

Title
Colonial odysseys : empire and epic in the modernist novel / David Adams.
Author
Adams, David, 1959-
Publication
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2003.

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Description
xi, 249 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Forster, E. M. 1879-1970
  • Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924
  • Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
  • Heart of darkness (Conrad, Joseph)
  • Passage to India (Forster, E.M.)
  • 1900-1999
  • English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Imperialism in literature
  • Epic literature, English > History and criticism
  • Modernism (Literature) > Great Britain
  • Colonies in literature
  • English fiction
  • Epic literature, English
  • Modernism (Literature)
  • Kolonialismus Motiv
  • Reise Motiv
  • Engels
  • Letterkunde
  • Fictie
  • Roman
  • Great Britain
  • Englisch
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
ch. 1. Beyond the Pillars of Hercules -- ch. 2. "The drive to be at home everywhere" -- ch. 3. Conrad's weariness -- ch. 4. Shadows of a "silver globe": Woolf's reconfiguration of the darkness -- Epilogue: circling home.
ISBN
  • 0801441617
  • 9780801441615
  • 0801488869
  • 9780801488863
LCCN
2003012660
OCLC
  • ocm52424105
  • 52424105
  • SCSB-14512929
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library