縮みゆく英国:モダニズムとイングランド国民文化<br>A Shrinking Island : Modernism and National Culture in England

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縮みゆく英国:モダニズムとイングランド国民文化
A Shrinking Island : Modernism and National Culture in England

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版/ページ数 304 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780691115498
  • DDC分類 306.0942

基本説明

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.

Full Description

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 meaning of Englishness. He ranges from canonical figures (T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf) to influential midcentury intellectuals (J. M. Keynes and J.R.R. Tolkien), from cultural studies pioneers (Raymond Williams and E. P. Thompson) to postwar migrant writers (George Lamming and Doris Lessing). Focusing on writing that converts the potential energy of the contracting British state into the language of insular integrity, he argues that an anthropological ethos of cultural holism came home to roost in late-imperial England.
Esty's interpretation challenges popular myths about the death of English literature. It portrays the survivors of the modernist generation not as aesthetic dinosaurs, but as participants in the transition from empire to welfare state, from metropolitan art to national culture. Mixing literary criticism with postcolonial theory, his account of London modernism's end-stages and after-lives provides a fresh take on major works while redrawing the lines between modernism and postmodernism.

Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix INTRODUCTION Late Modernism and the Anthropological Turn 1 ONE Modernism and Metropolitan Perception in England 23 The Other Side of the Hedge 23 "A Planet Full of Scraps" 28 Englishness as/vs.Modernity 31 Autoethnography and the Romance of Retrenchment 36 Modernist Valedictions circa 1940 46 TWO Insular Rites: Virginia Woolf and the Late Modernist Pageant-Play 54 Amnesia in Fancy Dress: Pageants for a New Century 56 "A Little Nucleus of Eternity ": J. C. Powys's A Glastonbury Romance 62 Rebuilding the Ruined House: T. S. Eliot's The Rock 70 "Innocent Island ": E.M. Forster's Passage to England 76 Island Stories and Modernist Ends in Between the Acts 85 THREE Insular Time: T.S. Eliot and Modernism's English End 108 The Antidiasporic Imagination 108 Metropolitan Standard Time 112 Anglocentric Revivals 117 Notes from a Shrinking Island 127 Four Quartets and the Chronotope of Englishness 135 FOUR Becoming Minor 163 The Keynesian National Object: Late Modernism and The General Theory 166 Local Color: English Cultural Studies as Home Anthropology 182 Ethnography in Reverse:(Post)colonial Writers in Fifties England 198 Conclusion: Minority Culture and Minor Culture 215 NOTES 227 INDEX 277