The Modernist Novel and the Decline of Empire

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Introduction: The decline of Britain and the rise of English......Page 11
THE RISE OF LITOTES......Page 19
THE MODERNIST PROFESSIONAL CLASS......Page 27
CHAPTER 1 Conrad’s gout......Page 35
MODERNIST ART WORK......Page 40
SELLING ART......Page 49
THE WORLDLY NOVELIST......Page 61
CHAPTER 2 Sentimental administration......Page 69
ON THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF GOING NATIVE......Page 73
ETHNOGRAPHIC CHARACTER......Page 85
NATIVE ADMINISTRATION......Page 93
CHAPTER 3 Gender, aesthetics, and colonial expertise......Page 102
PICTURESQUE IMPERIALISM......Page 105
THAT OLD IMPERIAL FEELING......Page 119
CHAPTER 4 The domestic life of primitivism......Page 132
EXOTIC THINGS......Page 134
CONNOISSEURSHIP AND CONNOISSEURS......Page 145
SEXED UP DOMESTICITY......Page 153
SEXUAL SELECTION......Page 160
LOCAL PRIMITIVISM......Page 172
CHAPTER 5 Local authority after Empire......Page 177
THE CITY AS NEIGHBOURHOOD......Page 182
MAKING RURAL LOCALITIES......Page 194
LOCAL AUTHORITY AND POPULAR CULTURE......Page 202
Bibliography......Page 211
Index......Page 233