This book considers the place of the British colonial city in modernist fiction. While modernism is often linked to the cultural transformations of the Euro-American metropolis, Modernism in the Metrocolony shows how writers responded to empire's urban legacies, tracing an alternative, peripheral history of the modernist city.
This book considers the place of the British colonial city in modernist fiction. While modernism is often linked to the cultural transformations of the Euro-American metropolis, Modernism in the Metrocolony shows how writers responded to empire's urban legacies, tracing an alternative, peripheral history of the modernist city.
Caitlin Vandertop is Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick. A former lecturer at the University of the South Pacific and research assistant at the University of Hong Kong, her work on modernism and colonial urban culture has been published in journals including Modern Fiction Studies, Textual Practice, Novel, Journal of Postcolonial Writing and Interventions.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Metrocolonial modernism 2. Architectures of free trade in Conrad's Singapore 3. Synchronising empire time in Joyce's Dublin 4. Anglo-Indian crises of development 5. Ecologies of empire in Oceanian modernism Conclusion: Mega-Dublins.
1. Metrocolonial modernism 2. Architectures of free trade in Conrad's Singapore 3. Synchronising empire time in Joyce's Dublin 4. Anglo-Indian crises of development 5. Ecologies of empire in Oceanian modernism Conclusion: Mega-Dublins.
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