Unseasonable youth: modernism, colonialism, and the fiction of development

Abstract

Contents Series Editors' Foreword Chapter one: Introduction Scattered Souls: The Bildungsroman and Colonial Modernity After the Novel of Progress Kipling's Imperial Genre, History, and the Trope of Youth Modernist Subjectivity and the World-System Chapter two National-Historical Time from Goethe to George Eliot Infinite Development vs. National Form Nationhood and Adulthood in The Mill on the Floss After Eliot: Aging Forms and Globalized Provinces Chapter three Youth/Death: Schreiner and Conrad in the Contact Zone Outpost Without Progress: Schreiner's Story of An African Farm A free and wandering tale: Conrad's Lord Jim Chapter four Souls of Men under Capitalism: Wilde, Wells, and the Anti-Novel Unripe Time: Dorian Gray and Metropolitan Youth Commerce and Decay in Tono-Bungay Chapter five Tropics of Youth in Woolf and Joyce The weight of the world: Woolf's Colonial Adolescence Elfin Preludes: Joyce's Adolescent Colony Chapter six Virgins of Empire: The Antidevelopmental Plot in Rhys and Bowen Gender and Colonialism in the Modernist Semi-Periphery Endlessly Devolving: Jean Rhys's Voyage in the Dark Querying Innocence: Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September Chapter seven: Conclusion Alternative Modernity and Autonomous Youth After 1945 Works Cited Index

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