The Obsolete Empire

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Modernist literature at the end of the British empire challenges conventional notions of homeland, heritage, and community. Finalist of the MSA First Book Prize by The Modernist Studies Association The waning British empire left behind an abundance of material relics and an inventory of feelings not easily relinquished. In The Obsolete Empire, Philip Tsang brings together an unusual constellation of writers—Henry James, James Joyce, Doris Lessing, and V. S. Naipaul—to trace an aesthetics of frustrated attachment that emerged in the wake of imperial decline. Caught between an expansive Britishness and an exclusive Englishness, these writers explored what it meant to belong to an empire that did not belong to them. Thanks to their voracious reading of English fiction and poetry in their formative years, all of these writers experienced a richly textured world with which they deeply identified but from which they felt excluded. The literary England they imagined, frozen in time and out of place with the realities of imperial decline, in turn figures in their writings as a repository of unconsummated attachments, contradictory desires, and belated exchanges. Their works arrest the linear progression from colonial to postcolonial, from empire to nation, and from subject to citizen. Drawing on a rich body of scholarship on affect and temporality, Tsang demonstrates how the British empire endures as a structure of desire that outlived its political lifespan. By showing how literary reading sets in motion a tense interplay of intimacy and exclusion, Tsang investigates a unique mode of belonging arising from the predicament of being conscripted into a global empire but not desired as its proper citizen. Ultimately, The Obsolete Empire asks: What does it mean to be inside or outside any given culture? How do large-scale geopolitical changes play out at the level of cultural attachment and political belonging? How does literary reading establish or unsettle narratives of who we are? These questions preoccupied writers across Britain's former empire and continue to resonate today.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Philip Tsang
Publisher : JHU Press
Release : 2021-11-02
File : 310 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781421441375


Marvyn Scudder Manual Of Extinct Or Obsolete Companies

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Genre : Corporations
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Release : 1926
File : 1396 Pages
ISBN-13 : WISC:89017616558


Berlin Under The New Empire

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Genre : Berlin
Author : Henry Vizetelly
Publisher : London, Tinsley bros.
Release : 1879
File : 496 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015051402223


A History Of The Later Roman Empire

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Genre : Byzantine Empire
Author : John Bagnell Bury
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Release : 1889
File : 526 Pages
ISBN-13 : PRNC:32101065413666


The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire

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Genre : Byzantine Empire
Author : Edward Gibbon
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Release : 1880
File : 718 Pages
ISBN-13 : MSU:31293103771485


The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire

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Genre : Byzantine Empire
Author : Edward Gibbon
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Release : 1890
File : 618 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCSC:32106019675690


The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire By Edward Gibbon

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Release : 1878
File : 652 Pages
ISBN-13 : IBNF:CF001261524


The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire

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Author : Gibbon
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Release : 1880
File : 726 Pages
ISBN-13 : UBBE:UBBE-00083452


The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire With Notes By H H Milman

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Genre : Byzantine Empire
Author : Edward Gibbon
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Release : 1878
File : 648 Pages
ISBN-13 : OSU:32435029309853


Empire In Asia

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Genre : India
Author : William Torrens McCullagh Torrens
Publisher : London : Trübner
Release : 1872
File : 446 Pages
ISBN-13 : MINN:319510017674005