The Resource A shrinking island : modernism and national culture in England, Jed Esty
A shrinking island : modernism and national culture in England, Jed Esty
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The item A shrinking island : modernism and national culture in England, Jed Esty represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries.
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- Summary
- This book describes a major literary culture caught in the act of becoming minor. In 1939, Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary, "Civilisation has shrunk." Her words captured not only the onset of World War II, but also a longer-term reversal of national fortune. The first comprehensive account of modernism and imperialism in England, A Shrinking Island tracks the joint eclipse of modernist aesthetics and British power from the literary experiments of the 1930s through the rise of cultural studies in the 1950s. Jed Esty explores the effects of declining empire on modernist form--and on the very me
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 285 pages)
- Contents
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- Introduction : late modernism and the anthropological turn
- Modernism and metropolitan perception in England
- Insular rites : Virginia Woolf and the late modernism pageant-play
- Insular time : T.S. Eliot and modernism's English end
- Becoming minor
- Isbn
- 9780691115498
- Label
- A shrinking island : modernism and national culture in England
- Title
- A shrinking island
- Title remainder
- modernism and national culture in England
- Statement of responsibility
- Jed Esty
- Subject
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- Angleterre -- Vie intellectuelle -- 20e siècle
- Bellettrie
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- Engels
- England
- England -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- English literature
- English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- History
- Imperialism in literature
- Imperialism in literature
- Impérialisme dans la littérature
- Intellectual life
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literature and anthropology
- Literature and anthropology -- England -- History -- 20th century
- 1900-1999
- Literature and society -- England -- History -- 20th century
- Littérature anglaise -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Littérature et anthropologie -- Angleterre -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Littérature et société -- Angleterre -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Modernism (Literature)
- Modernism (Literature) -- England
- Modernisme (Littérature) -- Angleterre
- Modernisme (cultuur)
- Nationalism in literature
- Nationalism in literature
- Nationalisme dans la littérature
- Postcolonialism in literature
- Postcolonialism in literature
- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature
- Literature and society
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This book describes a major literary culture caught in the act of becoming minor. In 1939, Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary, "Civilisation has shrunk." Her words captured not only the onset of World War II, but also a longer-term reversal of national fortune. The first comprehensive account of modernism and imperialism in England, A Shrinking Island tracks the joint eclipse of modernist aesthetics and British power from the literary experiments of the 1930s through the rise of cultural studies in the 1950s. Jed Esty explores the effects of declining empire on modernist form--and on the very me
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1967-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Esty, Joshua
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- English literature
- Modernism (Literature)
- Literature and anthropology
- Literature and society
- Postcolonialism in literature
- Imperialism in literature
- Nationalism in literature
- England
- Littérature anglaise
- Modernisme (Littérature)
- Littérature et anthropologie
- Littérature et société
- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature
- Impérialisme dans la littérature
- Nationalisme dans la littérature
- Angleterre
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- English literature
- Imperialism in literature
- Intellectual life
- Literature and anthropology
- Literature and society
- Modernism (Literature)
- Nationalism in literature
- Postcolonialism in literature
- England
- Modernisme (cultuur)
- Bellettrie
- Engels
- Label
- A shrinking island : modernism and national culture in England, Jed Esty
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-275) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction : late modernism and the anthropological turn -- Modernism and metropolitan perception in England -- Insular rites : Virginia Woolf and the late modernism pageant-play -- Insular time : T.S. Eliot and modernism's English end -- Becoming minor
- Control code
- ocn436086466
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 285 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780691115498
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/cttxx6z
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)436086466
- Label
- A shrinking island : modernism and national culture in England, Jed Esty
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-275) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction : late modernism and the anthropological turn -- Modernism and metropolitan perception in England -- Insular rites : Virginia Woolf and the late modernism pageant-play -- Insular time : T.S. Eliot and modernism's English end -- Becoming minor
- Control code
- ocn436086466
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 285 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780691115498
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/cttxx6z
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)436086466
Subject
- Angleterre -- Vie intellectuelle -- 20e siècle
- Bellettrie
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- Engels
- England
- England -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- English literature
- English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- History
- Imperialism in literature
- Imperialism in literature
- Impérialisme dans la littérature
- Intellectual life
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literature and anthropology
- Literature and anthropology -- England -- History -- 20th century
- 1900-1999
- Literature and society -- England -- History -- 20th century
- Littérature anglaise -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Littérature et anthropologie -- Angleterre -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Littérature et société -- Angleterre -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Modernism (Literature)
- Modernism (Literature) -- England
- Modernisme (Littérature) -- Angleterre
- Modernisme (cultuur)
- Nationalism in literature
- Nationalism in literature
- Nationalisme dans la littérature
- Postcolonialism in literature
- Postcolonialism in literature
- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature
- Literature and society
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