1. 'A Language That Was English': Peripheral Modernisms and the Remaking of the Republic of Letters in the Age of Empire; 2. 'It Uccedes Lundun': Logics of Literary Decline and 'Renaissance' from Tocqueville and Arnold to Yeats and Pound; 3. 'The Insolence of Empire': The Fall of the House of Europe and Emerging American Ascendancy in The Golden Bowl and The Waste Land; 4. Contesting Wills: Joyce, Yeats, Goethe, Shakespeare and Mimetic Rivalries in Ulysses; 5. 'That Huge Incoherent Failure of a House': Antinomies of American Ascendancy in The Great Gatsby and Long Day's Journey into Night; 6. 'Cities that open like The World's Classics': Omeros and Epic Impasse in the Neoliberal World Literary System.
Offers a bold new argument about how Irish, American and Caribbean modernisms helped remake the twentieth-century world literary system.
Joe Cleary is Professor of English at Yale University. His earlier books include Literature, Partition and the Nation-State: Culture and Conflict in Ireland, Israel and Palestine (2001) and Outrageous Fortune: Capital and Culture in Modern Ireland (2007). He is also the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Irish Modernism (2014) and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture (2005).
'Joe Cleary's Modernism, Empire, World Literature is that rare of
gems; a book that synthesizes a wide range of materials into a
succinct and clear argument that also manages to illuminate
original pathways through the main debates in the field. The
book reminds us of the best in literary criticism that we have been
used to in the likes of Edward Said, Frederic James, J. Hillis
Miller, and a handful of others.' Ato Quayson, Stanford
University
'In this compelling book, Joe Cleary traces the Anglophone
genealogy of contemporary world literature. His masterful and
rich readings of key modernist works carefully locate them within
their literary fields while showing them at the same time to be
part of a mighty struggle of erstwhile provincials to
take on the metropole and establish their literary, political,
and economic preminence in the world. Truly world literature
for the Anglophone age.' Francesca Orsini, SOAS University of
London
'This book has a dazzling trajectory. It crosses the territories of
the republic of letters and of modernism. It surveys the strategic
power shifts of the last two centuries in the Anglophone world
between English, Irish and American literatures. It analyses and
compares many of the great literary works in which these transfers
and transitions were made. Literary criticism and intellectual
history are interwoven here with such subtlety that the boundaries
that once separated them vanish in a fusion that, long-needed
by both, has at last been achieved.' Seamus Deane, University of
Notre Dame
'This incisive work from Cleary (English, Yale) offers a new and
innovative way of framing the discussion of modernism … This volume
will interest scholars of both modernism and postcolonialism …
Highly recommended.' A. P. Pennino, Choice Magazine
'It places Irish writing in a context that is at once world
historical and local, enabling new discussions of Irish modernism
and suggesting possibilities for further scholarly inquiry into its
subsequent development within a literary world system increasingly
centered in the American academy.' Liam Lanigan, New Hibernia
Review
'Modernism, Empire, World Literature … showcases Cleary's capacity
to wield his scholarship lightly, to craft a story out of his
materials, a story designed to persuade as much as to theorize or
problematize.' Patricia McManus, New Left Review
'Joe Cleary's rich new reading of anglophone modernism offers a
kind of expert guided tour of canonical texts of anglophone
modernism …' Christopher GoGwilt, James Joyce Quarterly
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