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Unseasonable youth : modernism, colonialism, and the fiction of development / Jed Esty.

Author/creator Esty, Joshua, 1967-
Other author/creatorOxford University Press.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoNew York : Oxford University Press,
Descriptionxv, 282 p. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online
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Subject(s)
Series Modernist literature & culture
Modernist literature & culture. ^A792421
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2011021174
ISBN9780199857968 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0199857962 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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