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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      November 2020
      November 2020
      ISBN:
      9781108891127
      9781108835626
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108891127
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.45kg, 212 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature after 1945, English Literature 1900-1945
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    While literary modernism is often associated with Euro-American metropolises such as London, Paris or New York, this book considers the place of the colonial city in modernist fiction. From the streets of Dublin to the shop-houses of Singapore, and from the botanical gardens of Bombay to the suburbs of Suva, the monumental landscapes of British colonial cities aimed to reinforce empire's universalising claims, yet these spaces also contradicted and resisted the impositions of an idealised English culture. Inspired by the uneven landscapes of the urban British empire, a group of twentieth-century writers transformed the visual incongruities and anachronisms on display in the city streets into sources of critique and formal innovation. Showing how these writers responded to empire's metrocolonial complexities and built legacies, Modernism in the Metrocolony traces an alternative, peripheral history of the modernist city.

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    ‘A welcome antidote to the myths of progress that have long persuaded us to like modernity more than we should.’

    Beci Carver Source: Times Literary Supplement

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