Book contents
- Modernism, Empire, World Literature
- Modernism, Empire, World Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 ‘A Language That Was English’: Peripheral Modernisms and the Remaking of the Republic of Letters in the Age of Empire
- Chapter 2 ‘It Uccedes Lundun’: Logics of Literary Decline and ‘Renaissance’ from Tocqueville and Arnold to Yeats and Pound
- Chapter 3 ‘The Insolence of Empire’: The Fall of the House of Europe and Emerging American Ascendancy in The Golden Bowl and The Waste Land
- Chapter 4 Contesting Wills: National Mimetic Rivalries, World War and World Literature in Ulysses
- Chapter 5 ‘That Huge Incoherent Failure of a House’: American Ascendancy and American Epic in The Great Gatsby and Long Day’s Journey into Night
- Chapter 6 ‘A Wreath of Flies?’: Omeros, Epic Achievement and Impasse in ‘the Program Era’
- Notes
- Index
Acknowledgements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 June 2021
- Modernism, Empire, World Literature
- Modernism, Empire, World Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 ‘A Language That Was English’: Peripheral Modernisms and the Remaking of the Republic of Letters in the Age of Empire
- Chapter 2 ‘It Uccedes Lundun’: Logics of Literary Decline and ‘Renaissance’ from Tocqueville and Arnold to Yeats and Pound
- Chapter 3 ‘The Insolence of Empire’: The Fall of the House of Europe and Emerging American Ascendancy in The Golden Bowl and The Waste Land
- Chapter 4 Contesting Wills: National Mimetic Rivalries, World War and World Literature in Ulysses
- Chapter 5 ‘That Huge Incoherent Failure of a House’: American Ascendancy and American Epic in The Great Gatsby and Long Day’s Journey into Night
- Chapter 6 ‘A Wreath of Flies?’: Omeros, Epic Achievement and Impasse in ‘the Program Era’
- Notes
- Index
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- Modernism, Empire, World Literature , pp. viii - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021