Tag Archives: Twentieth-century literature
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Caitlin Vandertop
Travelling between the cities of the former British empire can produce an uncanny sense of déjà vu: despite vast social, cultural and environmental differences, you’ll see familiar street names and statues, clock towers and law courts, missionary churches and schools, cricket grounds and botanical gardens. Linking a global network of cities, colonial iconography and urban […]
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Andrew Kalaidjian
“Get there if you can and see the land you once were proud to own…” W. H. Auden’s Poems (1930) presents a catalogue of exhausted landscapes and fragile psyches. This line in particular repeats in my head as I board the train at Richmond station en route to Gomshall, from which it is a short […]
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Robert L. Caserio
Present-day political controversies are strikingly like those in Britain at the end of World War Two. I’ve constructed The Cambridge Introduction to British Fiction, 1900-1950 to call attention to that convergence. Pivotal in this regard is the Introduction’s final chapter, “Collective Welfare and Warfare: British Fiction, 1936-1950.” For years now the U.S. has debated the […]
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Victoria Aarons
In this blog post Victoria Aarons, editor of The Cambridge Companion to Saul Bellow, details some of the key themes and concepts explored in Bellow's work.
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Caitlin Vandertop
Travelling between the cities of the former British empire can produce an uncanny sense of déjà vu: despite vast social, cultural and environmental differences, you’ll see familiar street names and statues, clock towers and law courts, missionary churches and schools, cricket grounds and botanical gardens. Linking a global network of cities, colonial iconography and urban […]
Read More
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Andrew Kalaidjian
“Get there if you can and see the land you once were proud to own…” W. H. Auden’s Poems (1930) presents a catalogue of exhausted landscapes and fragile psyches. This line in particular repeats in my head as I board the train at Richmond station en route to Gomshall, from which it is a short […]
Read More
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Robert L. Caserio
Present-day political controversies are strikingly like those in Britain at the end of World War Two. I’ve constructed The Cambridge Introduction to British Fiction, 1900-1950 to call attention to that convergence. Pivotal in this regard is the Introduction’s final chapter, “Collective Welfare and Warfare: British Fiction, 1936-1950.” For years now the U.S. has debated the […]
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Victoria Aarons
In this blog post Victoria Aarons, editor of
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