Esty Jed (Associate Professor Of English Associate Professor Of English University Of Pennsylvania)
Esty Jed (Associate Professor Of English Associate Professor Of English University Of Pennsylvania) - Unseasonable Youth Modernism Colonialism And The Fiction Of Development - Paperback
Esty Jed (Associate Professor Of English Associate Professor Of English University Of Pennsylvania) - Unseasonable Youth Modernism Colonialism And The Fiction Of Development - Paperback
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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. Novels of youth by Oscar Wilde Olive Schreiner Rudyard Kipling Joseph Conrad H. G. Wells James Joyce Virginia Woolf Jean Rhys and Elizabeth Bowen disrupt the inherited conventions of the bildungsroman in order to criticize bourgeois values and to reinvent the biographical plot but also to explore the contradictions inherent in mainstream developmental discourses of self nation and empire. The intertwined tropes of frozen youth and uneven development as motifs of failed progress play a crucial role in the emergence of dilatory modernist style and in the reimagination of colonial space at the fin - de - si cle. The genre - bending logic of uneven development - never wholly absent from the coming - of - age novel - - takes on a new and more intense form in modernism as it fixes its broken allegory to the problem of colonial development. In novels of unseasonable youth the nineteenth - century idea of world progress comes up against stubborn signs of underdevelopment and uneven development just at the same moment that post - Darwinian racial sciences and quasi - Freudian sexological discourses lend greater influence to the idea that certain forms of human difference cannot be mitigated by civilizing or developmental forces. In this historical context the temporal meaning and social vocation of the bildungsroman undergo a comprehensive shift as the history of the novel indexes the gradual displacement of historical - progressive thinking by anthropological - structural thinking in the Age of Empire.
Title: Unseasonable Youth Modernism Colonialism And The Fiction Of Development
Author(s): Esty Jed (Associate Professor Of English Associate Professor Of English University Of Pennsylvania)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780199307234
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 8/1/2013
Series: Modernist Literature and Culture
Category: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
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. Novels of youth by Oscar Wilde Olive Schreiner Rudyard Kipling Joseph Conrad H. G. Wells James Joyce Virginia Woolf Jean Rhys and Elizabeth Bowen disrupt the inherited conventions of the bildungsroman in order to criticize bourgeois values and to reinvent the biographical plot but also to explore the contradictions inherent in mainstream developmental discourses of self nation and empire. The intertwined tropes of frozen youth and uneven development as motifs of failed progress play a crucial role in the emergence of dilatory modernist style and in the reimagination of colonial space at the fin - de - si cle. The genre - bending logic of uneven development - never wholly absent from the coming - of - age novel - - takes on a new and more intense form in modernism as it fixes its broken allegory to the problem of colonial development. In novels of unseasonable youth the nineteenth - century idea of world progress comes up against stubborn signs of underdevelopment and uneven development just at the same moment that post - Darwinian racial sciences and quasi - Freudian sexological discourses lend greater influence to the idea that certain forms of human difference cannot be mitigated by civilizing or developmental forces. In this historical context the temporal meaning and social vocation of the bildungsroman undergo a comprehensive shift as the history of the novel indexes the gradual displacement of historical - progressive thinking by anthropological - structural thinking in the Age of Empire.
Title: Unseasonable Youth Modernism Colonialism And The Fiction Of Development
Author(s): Esty Jed (Associate Professor Of English Associate Professor Of English University Of Pennsylvania)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780199307234
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 8/1/2013
Series: Modernist Literature and Culture
Category: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
