Acknowledgments  ix

Introduction / Richard Begam and Michael Valdez Moses  1

Part 1: Victorian Backgrounds  

1. Colonialism and Popular Literature at the Fin de Siecle / Nicholas Daly  19

Part 2: Modern British Literature  

2. Disorientalism: Conrad and the Imperial Origins of Modernist Aesthetics / Michael Valdez Moses  43

3. Virginia Woolfs Colony and the Adolescence of Modernist Fiction / Jed Esty  70

4. War, Primitivism, and the Future of the West: Reflections on D.H. Lawrence and Wyndham Lewis / Andrzej Agsiorek  91

5. T.S. Eliot, Late Empire, and Decadence / Vincent Sherry  111

6. Romancing the Stump: Modernism and Colonialism to Forsters A Passage to India / Brian May  136

7. A tangle of modernism and barbarity: Evelyn Waughs Black Mischief / Rita Barnard  162

Part 3: Ireland and Scotland  

8. Joyces Trojan Horse: Ulysses and the Aesthetics of Decolonization / Richard Begam  185

9. Yeats, Spengler, and A Vision after Empire / Nicholas Allen  209

10. Elizabeth Bowens Troubled Modernism / Maria DiBattista  226

11. Upon the thistle theyre impaled: Hugh MacDiarmids Modernist Nationalism / Ian Duncan  246

Part 4: Toward the Postcolonial  

12. Postcolonial Modernism? / Declan Kiberd  269

13. Modernist Bricolage, Postcolonial Hybridity / Jahan Ramazani  288

Contributors  315

Index  319

Richard Begam

Michael Valdez Moses

Nicholas Daly

Jed Esty

Andrzej Gasiorek

Vincent Sherry

Brian May

Rita Barnard

Nicholas Allen

Maria DiBattista

Ian Duncan

Declan Kiberd

Jahan Ramazani

“Erudite, imaginative, and largely persuasive, these critics append bibliographies to their essays that attest to the recent proliferation of modernist and postcolonial studies. Their contributions should stimulate further scholarship. Recommended.”—M. S. Vogeler, Choice

“The essays range broadly not only in scope, but also in their responses to the coincidence of the high point of colonialism and modernism. . . . [The essays] provide an impressive array of arguments in favour of a continuing critical engagement with the relations between modernism and colonialism.”—Coilin Parsons, Review of English Studies

“[A] comprehensive collection on the relationship between modernist aesthetics and the political realities of colonialism . . . [I]mpressive.”—Timothy Sutton, English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920

“The editors are to be commended not only for persuading such an exciting and well-regarded group of scholars to contribute to this collection but also for structuring the collection so wisely. The essays range widely enough among topics of study to underscore the diverse ways in which modernists and modernist texts engaged with colonial questions, but a genuine, seemingly effortless dialogue unfolds among the essays.”—Paige Reynolds, Journal of British Studies

“Begam and Moses have produced a strongly coherent volume, one in which modernism is frequently read as a critique of Western complacencies. The most interesting and challenging contributions, however, focus on authors, such as Elizabeth Bowen and Evelyn Waugh, whose affiliations and formal
innovations do not fit this paradigm so comfortably.”—Forum for Modern Language Studies

“Erudite, imaginative, and largely persuasive, these critics append bibliographies to their essays that attest to the recent proliferation of modernist and postcolonial studies. Their contributions should stimulate further scholarship. Recommended.”—M. S. Vogeler, Choice

“The essays range broadly not only in scope, but also in their responses to the coincidence of the high point of colonialism and modernism. . . . [The essays] provide an impressive array of arguments in favour of a continuing critical engagement with the relations between modernism and colonialism.”—Coilin Parsons, Review of English Studies

“[A] comprehensive collection on the relationship between modernist aesthetics and the political realities of colonialism . . . [I]mpressive.”—Timothy Sutton, English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920

“The editors are to be commended not only for persuading such an exciting and well-regarded group of scholars to contribute to this collection but also for structuring the collection so wisely. The essays range widely enough among topics of study to underscore the diverse ways in which modernists and modernist texts engaged with colonial questions, but a genuine, seemingly effortless dialogue unfolds among the essays.”—Paige Reynolds, Journal of British Studies

“Begam and Moses have produced a strongly coherent volume, one in which modernism is frequently read as a critique of Western complacencies. The most interesting and challenging contributions, however, focus on authors, such as Elizabeth Bowen and Evelyn Waugh, whose affiliations and formal
innovations do not fit this paradigm so comfortably.”—Forum for Modern Language Studies

“Modernism and Colonialism is a terrific book—timely, intelligent, capacious, and a pleasure to read.”—Douglas Mao, coeditor of Bad Modernisms

“The subject of this collection—the relation between modernism, understood especially in terms of formal innovation and self-reflexivity, and the historical phenomenon of British colonialism and of resistance to colonialism—is an important and timely one that has received remarkably little attention.”—Derek Attridge, author of The Singularity of Literature

“Modernism and Colonialism will have a real impact on the fields of postcolonial studies and British modernism. It succeeds in treating colonialism as a condition of possibility for a vibrant British-transnational modernism.”—Simon During, author of Modern Enchantments: The Cultural Power of Secular Magic

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