Unseasonable youth : modernism, colonialism, and the fiction of development /

'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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Esty, Joshua, 1967-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Series:	Modernist literature & culture.
Subjects:	English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism. English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. Modernism (Literature) > Great Britain. Bildungsromans, English > History and criticism. Youth in literature. Adolescence in literature. Progress in literature. Colonies in literature. Imperialism in literature. Roman anglais > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique. Roman anglais > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique. Modernisme (Littérature) > Grande-Bretagne. Roman d'éducation anglais > Histoire et critique. Jeunesse dans la littérature. Adolescence dans la littérature. Progrès dans la littérature. Colonies dans la littérature. Impérialisme dans la littérature. LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Adolescence in literature Bildungsromans, English Colonies in literature English fiction Imperialism in literature Modernism (Literature) Progress in literature Youth in literature Great Britain Englisch Bildungsroman Imperialismus > Motiv Englisch. Roman. Bildungsroman. Modernism > Great Britain. Coming of age in literature. Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900. Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers. English. Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000. Literature: history & criticism. United Kingdom, Great Britain. Ireland. Literature. 1800-1999 Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:

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
"National-historical time" from Goethe to George Eliot
Youth/death: Schreiner and Conrad in the contact zone
Souls of men under capitalism: Wilde, Wells, and the anti-novel
Tropics of youth in Woolf and Joyce
Virgins of empire: the antidevelopmental plot in Rhys and Bowen
Conclusion: alternative modernity and autonomous youth after 1945.