Unseasonable youth
Subtitle: modernism, colonialism, and the fiction of development
By: Jed Esty
Series: Modernist literature & culture; Modernist literature & culture
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780199857968
Subjects: History and criticism; English Bildungsromans; Adolescence in literature; Modernism (Literature); English fiction; Colonies in literature; Youth in literature; Imperialism in literature; Progress in literature
Description: '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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: "National-historical time" from Goethe to George Eliot; title: Youth/death: Schreiner and Conrad in the contact zone; title: Souls of men under capitalism: Wilde, Wells, and the anti-novel; title: Tropics of youth in Woolf and Joyce; title: Virgins of empire: the antidevelopmental plot in Rhys and Bowen; title: Conclusion: alternative modernity and autonomous youth after 1945.