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