Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Late modernism and the outward turn
  • The last snapshot of the British intelligentsia: documentary, mass-observation and the fate of the liberal avant-garde
  • The historical novel at history's end
  • Late modernism's geopolitical imagination: everyday life in the global hot zones
  • War gothic
  • Is de age of colonial concern: vernacular fictions and political belonging
  • Epilogue: Appointments to keep in the past.