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

Unseasonable youth modernism, colonialism, and the fiction of development

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:...

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1. Verfasser: Esty, Joshua (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York u.a. Oxford University Press c 2012
Schriftenreihe:Modernist literature & culture
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English fiction > History and criticism > Modernism (Literature) > Bildungsromans, English > Youth in literature > Adolescence in literature > Progress in literature > Colonies in literature > Imperialism in literature > Geschichte 1800-1900 > Geschichte 1900-2000 > Englisch > Roman > Bildungsroman
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XV, 282 S
24 cm
ISBN:0199857962
0-19-985796-2
9780199857968
978-0-19-985796-8