Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One Victorian Backgrounds
6. One. Colonialism and Popular Literature at the Fin de Siècle 19
7. Part Two Modern British Literature
8. Two. Disorientalism: Conrad and the Imperial Origins of Modernist Aesthetics 43
9. Three. Virginia Woolf ’s Colony and the Adolescence of Modernist Fiction 70
10. Four. War, ‘‘Primitivism,’’ and the Future of ‘‘the West’’: Reflections on D. H. Lawrence and Wyndham Lewis 91
11. Five. T. S. Eliot, Late Empire, and Decadence 111
12. Six. Romancing the Stump: Modernism and Colonialism in Forster’s A Passage to India 136
13. Seven. ‘‘A tangle of modernism and barbarity’’: Evelyn Waugh’s Black Mischief 162
14. Part Three Ireland and Scotland
15. Eight. Joyce’s Trojan Horse: Ulysses and the Aesthetics of Decolonization 185
16. Nine. Yeats, Spengler, and A Vision after Empire 209
17. Ten. Elizabeth Bowen’s Troubled Modernism 226
18. Eleven. ‘‘Upon the thistle they’re impaled’’: Hugh MacDiarmid’s Modernist Nationalism 246
19. Part Four Toward the Postcolonial
20. Twelve. Postcolonial Modernism? 269
21. Thirteen. Modernist Bricolage, Postcolonial Hybridity 288
22. Contributors 315
23. Index 319