This collection of essays by renowned literary scholars offers a
sustained and comprehensive account of the relation of British and
Irish literary modernism to colonialism. Bringing postcolonial
studies into dialogue with modernist studies, the contributors move
beyond depoliticized appreciations of modernist aesthetics as well
as the dismissal of literary modernism as irredeemably complicit in
the evils of colonialism. They demonstrate that the modernists were
not unapologetic supporters of empire. Many were avowedly and
vociferously opposed to colonialism, and all of the writers
considered in this volume were concerned with the political and
cultural significance of colonialism, including its negative
consequences for both the colonizer and the colonized.Ranging over
poetry, fiction, and criticism, the essays provide fresh appraisals
of Joseph Conrad, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf, D. H.
Lawrence, Wyndham Lewis, E. M. Forster, W. B. Yeats, James Joyce,
Elizabeth Bowen, Hugh MacDiarmid, and Evelyn Waugh, as well as
Robert Louis Stevenson and H. Rider Haggard. The essays that
bookend the collection connect the modernists to their Victorian
precursors, to postwar literary critics, and to postcolonial poets.
The rest treat major works written or published between 1899 and
1939, the boom years of literary modernism and the period during
which the British empire reached its greatest geographic expanse.
Among the essays are explorations of how primitivism figured in the
fiction of Lawrence and Lewis; how, in Ulysses, Joyce used
modernist techniques toward anticolonial ends; and how British
imperialism inspired Conrad, Woolf, and Eliot to seek new aesthetic
forms appropriate to the sense of dislocation they associated with
empire. Contributors. Nicholas Allen, Rita Barnard, Richard Begam,
Nicholas Daly, Maria DiBattista, Ian Duncan, Jed Esty, Andrzej
Gasiorek, Declan Kiberd, Brian May, Michael Valdez Moses, Jahan
Ramazani, Vincent Sherry
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