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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      08 December 2005
      ISBN:
      9780511485169
      9780521856171
      9780521120814
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511485169
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.523kg, 236 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.35kg, 236 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature 1900-1945
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    In the early twentieth century, subjects of the British Empire ceased to rely on a model of centre and periphery in imagining their world and came instead to view it as an interconnected network of cosmopolitan people and places. English language and literature were promoted as essential components of a commercial, cultural, and linguistic network that spanned the globe. John Marx argues that the early twentieth century was a key moment in the emergence of modern globalization, rather than simply a period of British imperial decline. Modernist fiction was actively engaged in this transformation of society on an international scale. The very stylistic abstraction that seemed to remove modernism from social reality, in fact internationalized the English language. Rather than mapping the decline of Empire, modernist novelists such as Conrad and Woolf celebrated the shared culture of the English language as more important than the waning imperial structures of Britain.

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    “Combining historical and intertextual analysis, Marx reframes the relationship of modernism, professionalism, and imperialism to emphasize the appearance of globalizing forces at the beginning of the twentieth century.” -- Choice

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