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MODERNISM, EMPIRE, WORLD LITERATURE After World War I, American, Irish and then Caribbean writers boldly remade the world literary system long dominated by Paris andLondon.Respondingtoliteraryrenaissancesandsocialupheavals in their own countries and to the decline of war-devastated Europe, émigréanddomestic-basedwritersproduceddazzlingnewworksthat challengedLondon’sorParis’sauthoritytofixanddetermineliterary value. In so doing, they propounded new conceptions of aesthetic accomplishment that were later codified as ‘modernism’. However, after World War II, an assertive American literary establishment repurposed literary modernism to boost the cultural prestige of the United States in the Cold War and tocontest Soviet conceptions of ‘worldliterature’.Here,inaccomplishedreadingsofmajorworksand essaysbyHenryJames,EzraPound,W.B.Yeats,T.S.Eliot,James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O’Neill and Derek Walcott, Joe ClearysituatesAnglophonemodernismintermsoftheriseandfallof European and American empires, changing world literary systems, and disputedhistories of‘world literature’. is Professor of English at Yale University. His earlier booksincludeLiterature,PartitionandtheNation-State:Cultureand Conflict in Ireland, Israel and Palestine () and Outrageous Fortune: Capital and Culture in Modern Ireland (). He is also the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Irish Modernism () and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture (). Published online by Cambridge University Press Published online by Cambridge University Press MODERNISM, EMPIRE, WORLD LITERATURE JOE CLEARY YaleUniversity Published online by Cambridge University Press UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridge,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,thFloor,NewYork,,USA WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,,Australia –,rdFloor,Plot,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre,NewDelhi–,India AnsonRoad,#–/,Singapore CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/ :./ ©JoeCleary Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. 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Published online by Cambridge University Press MODERNISM, EMPIRE, WORLD LITERATURE After World War I, American, Irish and then Caribbean writers boldly remade the world literary system long dominated by Paris andLondon.Respondingtoliteraryrenaissancesandsocialupheavals in their own countries and to the decline of war-devastated Europe, émigréanddomestic-basedwritersproduceddazzlingnewworksthat challengedLondon’sorParis’sauthoritytofixanddetermineliterary value. In so doing, they propounded new conceptions of aesthetic accomplishment that were later codified as ‘modernism’. However, after World War II, an assertive American literary establishment repurposed literary modernism to boost the cultural prestige of the United States in the Cold War and tocontest Soviet conceptions of ‘worldliterature’.Here,inaccomplishedreadingsofmajorworksand essaysbyHenryJames,EzraPound,W.B.Yeats,T.S.Eliot,James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O’Neill and Derek Walcott, Joe ClearysituatesAnglophonemodernismintermsoftheriseandfallof European and American empires, changing world literary systems, and disputedhistories of‘world literature’. is Professor of English at Yale University. His earlier booksincludeLiterature,PartitionandtheNation-State:Cultureand Conflict in Ireland, Israel and Palestine () and Outrageous Fortune: Capital and Culture in Modern Ireland (). He is also the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Irish Modernism () and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture (). Published online by Cambridge University Press Published online by Cambridge University Press MODERNISM, EMPIRE, WORLD LITERATURE JOE CLEARY YaleUniversity Published online by Cambridge University Press UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridge,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,thFloor,NewYork,,USA WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,,Australia –,rdFloor,Plot,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre,NewDelhi–,India AnsonRoad,#–/,Singapore CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/ :./ ©JoeCleary Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyTJBooksLimited,PadstowCornwall AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData :Cleary,Joe(JosephN.),author. :Modernism,empire,worldliterature/JoeCleary. :Cambridge,UnitedKingdom:CambridgeUniversityPress,.| Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. :(print)|(ebook)| (hardback)|(paperback)|(epub) ::Literature,Modern–thcentury–Historyandcriticism.|American literature–thcentury–Historyandcriticism.|Englishliterature–thcentury–History andcriticism.|Englishliterature–Irishauthors–Historyandcriticism.| Modernism(Literature)–UnitedStates.|Modernism(Literature)–Ireland. :.(print)|(ebook)|/.– LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/ LCebookrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/ ----Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracy ofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Published online by Cambridge University Press MODERNISM, EMPIRE, WORLD LITERATURE After World War I, American, Irish and then Caribbean writers boldly remade the world literary system long dominated by Paris andLondon.Respondingtoliteraryrenaissancesandsocialupheavals in their own countries and to the decline of war-devastated Europe, émigréanddomestic-basedwritersproduceddazzlingnewworksthat challengedLondon’sorParis’sauthoritytofixanddetermineliterary value. In so doing, they propounded new conceptions of aesthetic accomplishment that were later codified as ‘modernism’. However, after World War II, an assertive American literary establishment repurposed literary modernism to boost the cultural prestige of the United States in the Cold War and tocontest Soviet conceptions of ‘worldliterature’.Here,inaccomplishedreadingsofmajorworksand essaysbyHenryJames,EzraPound,W.B.Yeats,T.S.Eliot,James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O’Neill and Derek Walcott, Joe ClearysituatesAnglophonemodernismintermsoftheriseandfallof European and American empires, changing world literary systems, and disputedhistories of‘world literature’. is Professor of English at Yale University. His earlier booksincludeLiterature,PartitionandtheNation-State:Cultureand Conflict in Ireland, Israel and Palestine () and Outrageous Fortune: Capital and Culture in Modern Ireland (). He is also the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Irish Modernism () and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture (). Published online by Cambridge University Press Published online by Cambridge University Press
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