A shrinking island: modernism and national culture in England

Abstract

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix INTRODUCTION Late Modernism and the Anthropological Turn 1 ONE Modernism and Metropolitan Perception in England 23 The Other Side of the Hedge 23 Planet Full of Scraps 28 Englishness as/vs.Modernity 31 Autoethnography and the Romance of Retrenchment 36 Modernist Valedictions circa 1940 46 TWO Insular Rites: Virginia Woolf and the Late Modernist Pageant-Play 54 Amnesia in Fancy Dress: Pageants for a New Century 56 Little Nucleus of Eternity : J. C. Powys's A Glastonbury Romance 62 Rebuilding the Ruined House: T. S. Eliot's The Rock 70 Innocent Island : E.M. Forster's Passage to England 76 Island Stories and Modernist Ends in Between the Acts 85 THREE Insular Time: T.S. Eliot and Modernism's English End 108 The Antidiasporic Imagination 108 Metropolitan Standard Time 112 Anglocentric Revivals 117 Notes from a Shrinking Island 127 Four Quartets and the Chronotope of Englishness 135 FOUR Becoming Minor 163 The Keynesian National Object: Late Modernism and The General Theory 166 Local Color: English Cultural Studies as Home Anthropology 182 Ethnography in Reverse:(Post)colonial Writers in Fifties England 198 Conclusion: Minority Culture and Minor Culture 215 NOTES 227 INDEX 277

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