Modernism and the Post-Colonial

Peter Childs is Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Gloucestershire. He was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by Higher Education Academy in 2004.

• Introduction: Victorian and Modernist Adventurers; 1. Sons and Daughters of the Late Colonialism; 2. The Anxiety of Indian Encirclement; 3. Mongrel Figures Frozen in Contemplative Irony; 4. Naked and Veiled Geographical Violence; 5. The Materialized Tower of the Past; Concluding: Peripheral Vision into the 1930s; Bibliography; Index.

"In this engagingly readable book T E Lawrence rubs shoulders with Wagner and both are seen as being on the cusp between imperial confidence and the 'nervous condition' of modernism. Peter Childs' subtle reading of specific texts is informed by a probing and wide-ranging analysis of the late colonial period and its anxieties, not just about control but about the exercise of power and about conceptual questions relating to time and mapping. The range of literary works itself provides the reader with a new map of the intersection between modernism and the post-colonial." Professor Angela Smith (Emeritus), Department of English Studies, University of Stirling, UK