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MAKE Literary Productions, NFP | Review: Unseasonable Youth by Jed Esty

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Make a tax-deductible donation today and help us continue to publish online and in print. No contribution is too small. Published by Oxford University Press, 2012 | 2012 pages In his first book, published in 2004, Jed Esty posed a relatively simple research question: if the accumulation and concentration of economic, social and cultural power in metropolitan London in the high age of British imperialism between 1880 and 1930 shaped and inflected the character of British literary modernism, as has long been recognised, then what was the relation of literary culture to the contraction and diffusion of imperial power from 1930? In A Shrinking Island: Modernism and National Culture in England, Esty explored this relation via a critical reassessment of the ‘late modernism’ of writers such as T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster. By tracing the ways in which these writers in the thirties and forties began to deemphasise the redemptive agency of universal art and promote instead

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