World views
Subtitle: metageographies of modernist fiction
By: Jon Hegglund
Series: Modernist literature & culture
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780199796106
Subjects: Geographical perception in literature; History and criticism; Geocriticism; Cartography in literature; Space in literature; Geopolitics in literature; Geography and literature; Modernism (Literature); English fiction; Postcolonialism in literature
Other titles: Metageographies of modernist fiction
Description: 'World Views' examines literary representations of spatial form within the contexts of the emerging disciplines of geography, geopolitics, and international relations, positing that modernism's experimental engagements with space intended to imagine alternatives to the new world order.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 164-185) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. The modernist novel as metageography; title: Continent. Modernism, geographical determinism, and the image of Africa; title: Region. Geddes, Forster, and the situated eye; title: Internal colony. The spectral cartographies of Ulysses; title: Island. Rhys, Kincaid, and the myth of insular sovereignty; title: Boundary. Nehru, Ghosh, and the enchantment of lines.