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Unseasonable youth [electronic resource] : modernism, colonialism, and the fiction of development / Jed Esty

Author
Esty, Joshua, 1967-
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
Copyright Date
©2012
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 282 pages).
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Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: Scattered Souls---The Bildungsroman and Colonial Modernity -- After the Novel of Progress -- Kipling's Imperial Time -- Genre, History, and the Trope of Youth -- Modernist Subjectivity and the World-System -- 2."National-Historical Time" from Goethe to George Eliot -- Infinite Development versus National Form -- Nationhood and Adulthood in The Mill on the Floss -- After Eliot: Aging Forms and Globalized Provinces -- 3.Youth/Death: Schreiner and Conrad in the Contact Zone -- Outpost without Progress: Olive Schreiner's Story of an African Farm -- "A free and wandering tale": Conrad's Lord Jim -- 4.Souls of Men under Capitalism: Wilde, Wells, and the Anti-Novel -- "Unripe Time": Dorian Gray and Metropolitan Youth -- An "unassimilable enormity of traffic": Commerce and Decay in Tono-Bungay -- 5.Tropics of Youth in Woolf and Joyce -- The "weight of the world": Woolf's Colonial Adolescence -- "Elfin Preludes": Joyce's Adolescent Colony -- 6.Virgins of Empire: The Antidevelopmental Plot in Rhys and Bowen -- Gender and Colonialism in the Modernist Semi-Periphery -- Endlessly Devolving: Jean Rhys's Voyage in the Dark -- Querying Innocence: Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September -- 7.Conclusion: Alternative Modernity and Autonomous Youth after 1945.
Summary
'Unseasonable Youth' examines a range of modernist-era fictions that cast doubt on the ideology of progress through the figure of stunted or endless adolescence.
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ISBN
9780199919581 (ebook)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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