Modernism, empire, world literature / by Cleary, Joe

Table of Contents: “…"A language that was English" : peripheral modernisms and the remaking of empire in the republic of letters in the age of empire -- "It uccedes Lundun" : logics of literary decline and "renaissance" from Tocqueville and Arnold to Yeats and pound -- "The insolence of empire" : the fall of the House of Europe and emerging American ascendancy in The golden bowl and The waste land -- Contesting wills : Joyce, Yeats, Goethe, Shakespeare and mimetic rivalries in Ulysses -- "That huge incoherent failure of a house" : antinomies of American literature in The great Gatsby and Long day's journey into night -- "Cities that open like The world's classics" : Omeros and epic impasse in the neolberal world literary system.…”
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