An edition of Unseasonable youth
(2012)
Unseasonable youth
modernism, colonialism, and the fiction of development
by Joshua Esty
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'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.
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History and criticism, English Bildungsromans, Adolescence in literature, Modernism (Literature), English fiction, Colonies in literature, Youth in literature, Imperialism in literature, Progress in literature, English fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, English fiction, history and criticism, 19th century, Bildungsromans, Literary criticism, EuropeanPlaces
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Unseasonable youth: modernism, colonialism, and the fiction of development
2012, Oxford University Press
in English
0199857962 9780199857968
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Table of Contents
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
"National-historical time" from Goethe to George Eliot
Youth/death: Schreiner and Conrad in the contact zone
Souls of men under capitalism: Wilde, Wells, and the anti-novel
Tropics of youth in Woolf and Joyce
Virgins of empire: the antidevelopmental plot in Rhys and Bowen
Conclusion: alternative modernity and autonomous youth after 1945.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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