Race and the Modernist Imagination
Urmila Seshagiri
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Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 20. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 163 x 237 x 30. Weight in Grams: 576.
Race has long been recognized as a formative element of American modernism, but its role in England is less clearly understood. While critics have examined race in the works of British writers such as Kipling, Conrad, and Forster, they have done so mostly from a postcolonial perspective. In Race and the Modernist Imagination, Urmila Seshagiri finds that race-as a matter apart from imperialism-served as an engine for the creation of new literary forms by a wide range of writers, including Oscar Wilde, Ford Madox Ford, Katherine Mansfield, Rebecca West, and Virginia Woolf. In Seshagiri's view, race provided these writers with ... Read more
Race has long been recognized as a formative element of American modernism, but its role in England is less clearly understood. While critics have examined race in the works of British writers such as Kipling, Conrad, and Forster, they have done so mostly from a postcolonial perspective. In Race and the Modernist Imagination, Urmila Seshagiri finds that race-as a matter apart from imperialism-served as an engine for the creation of new literary forms by a wide range of writers, including Oscar Wilde, Ford Madox Ford, Katherine Mansfield, Rebecca West, and Virginia Woolf. In Seshagiri's view, race provided these writers with ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
576g
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801448218
SKU
V9780801448218
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Reviews for Race and the Modernist Imagination
Race and the Modernist Imagination is a provocative and altogether compelling demonstration of how race permeated British social attitudes and inspired the bravura experimentalism of modern art in various mediums and genres, from cultural sensations like the Ballets Russes to the avant-garde entertainments of the Cave of the Golden Calf and from the high modernist writings of Oscar Wilde, ... Read more