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Untimely citizens: Late realism in twentieth-century British literature.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Untimely citizens: Late realism in twentieth-century British literature./
Author:	Tsang, Philip.
Description:	239 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-05(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-05A(E).
Subject:	English literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3670977
ISBN:	9781321480313

Untimely citizens: Late realism in twentieth-century British literature.
Tsang, Philip.

Untimely citizens: Late realism in twentieth-century British literature. - 239 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-05(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation investigates the persistent Anglocentrism that punctuates twentieth-century British and Anglophone literatures. In the wake of British imperial decline, writers from Britain's former colonies often inscribe in their works an Anglocentric worldview that looks strikingly out of sync with the political realities of a post-imperial world. Looking at Henry James, James Joyce, Doris Lessing, and V. S. Naipaul, all of whom grew up outside of England and wrote from a peripheral position in the empire, I attend to the cultural and material existence of the British empire that outlives its geopolitical lifespan. These writers are all reluctant to let go of an obsolete colonial order, a hierarchical core-periphery world system sustained by British imperialism. However, they are not nostalgic about Britain's imperial past, but are deeply troubled by the empire's history of violence and injustice. Pervading their works is a self-conscious untimeliness. As their home countries take leave of the British empire, they refuse to celebrate with their fellow countrymen, and turn their backs on a new world of post-imperial hybridity and cultural mixing. While critics have downplayed or dismissed their anachronistic Anglocentrism, this dissertation homes in on the most unprogressive, eccentric moments in their works in order to address the vexing affective legacy of an obsolete empire. Placing these writers in a realist lineage, I suggest that their works articulate the British empire as a single historical totality as well as a complex network of feelings and identifications. Rather than follow the modernist ethos to fly by the nets of tradition and make it new, these writers hold fast to a world that they have outlived by painstakingly describing it into existence, in an attempt to secure in their own writing a home that was never their home.

ISBN: 9781321480313Subjects--Topical Terms:

516356
English literature.

Untimely citizens: Late realism in twentieth-century British literature.
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