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Culture, empire, and the question of being modern

An exploration of the problematic formation of national culture within modern English society. It documents the relationship of concepts such as "frontier", "English" and "colonial" through an analysis of literary-cultural figures such as Kipling and T.S. Eliot in their historical contexts.
Print Book, English, 2003
Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, 2003
History
231 s
9780739103883, 9780739103890, 0739103881, 073910389X
186162903
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Culture, Empire, Modernity Chapter 3 Primitive Vigor, Empire, and a "Pure" National Culture Chapter 4 The "Recovery" of the English Frontier in England Chapter 5 From National Imperialism to Imperial Nationalism Chapter 6 The "Native" Arrives Chapter 7 Epilogue: An "East Asian Modernity" and the Ironies of Postcolonial Culture