...Joe Kennedy William Sansom belongs to a loose category of British novelists working around World War II and in the wake of prewar modernism who produced fictions recapitulating neither high modernism's assertive experimentation nor the 1930s retreat into social realism. While this writing failed...

...Timothy Davies This article explores the “private trade” network of British East India Company merchants in one segment of the eighteenth-century Indian Ocean world, foregrounding a new perspective on this element of European commerce in early modern Asia. Much recent work on this topic emphasizes...

... share a common interest in horror as an affective state and an aesthetic technique. This essay argues that by grafting the affect and imagery of horror onto domestic scenes, Red Pottage , like Dracula , envisions a British society assaulted by a corrupting force that saps its vitality and health...

... century, novels disseminate this abstract and singular definition of transsexuality and also recover the various and complex narratives of sexed embodiment first found in the case studies. © 2015 by University of Oklahoma 2015 British modernism transgender studies postcolonial critique early...

... for Storm Jameson.” In British Fiction after Modernist: The Novel at Midcentury , edited by MacKay Marina Stonebridge Lyndsey , 33 – 41 . New York : Palgrave Macmillan . Olson Liesl . 2009 . Modernism and the Ordinary . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Orwell George...

..." that "illustrate ancient and modern America," and—with Muir- head's Blue Guide in mind—cannot miss the evidence of other people's "back- wardness" installed in this monument to British expansionism.10 Similarly, E. 9 Although Behdad 35-52 offers a useful examination of the guidebook genre in relation...

... York : Washington Squre . Stein Tristan . 2011 . “Tangier in the Restoration Empire.” Historical Journal 54 , no. 4 : 985 – 1011 . Stern Philip J. 2011 . The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India . Oxford...

... and the Victorian Novel . London and Basingstoke, UK : Macmillan . Daly Nicholas . 1999 . Modernism, Romance, and the Fin de Siècle: Popular Fiction and British Culture, 1880 – 1914 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . David Deirdre . 1995 . Rule Britannia: Women, Empire...

... impact reverberated through the domains of literature and politics. Popularization of evolutionary theory shifted narrative representation of the hierarchized categories upon which the British Empire relied: English and foreign, aristocrat and working class, masculine and feminine, human and animal...

... need to be protected from destruction by the modern world by assuring British control of the area surrounding the plateau. Only the British are capable of protecting the plateau’s people from prospectors who would “turn this ‘El Dorado’ into a ‘Gold diggings,’ a ‘Miners’ camp,’ with all...

... . Altick Richard D. The Shows of London . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 1978 . Armstrong Nancy . Fiction in the Age of Photography: The Legacy of British Realism . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 1999 . Avery Kevin J. Fodera Peter L. . John Vanderlyn's Panoramic View of the Palace...

...- modernity, it is an inherent factor in postimperiality and thus, arguably, an inte- gral part of understanding how postmodernity has been experienced and mani- fested in British cultural and society. While absent, for the most part, from American academic discourse, postimperiality has, in the past few...

... solitude might love to lift Her soul above this sphere of earthliness; Where silence undisturb’d might watch alone, So cold, so bright, so still. The same lines had appeared in 1831 in The Beauties of Modern British Poetry, Systematically...

... : Field Day . DiBattista Maria . 2007 . “Elizabeth Bowen's Troubled Modernism.” In Modernism and Colonialism: British and Irish Literature, 1899–1939 , edited by Begam Richard Moses Michael Valdez , 226 – 45 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Ellmann Maud . 2003...

... cultures and self-translation already took place before a performance crossed borders. The stage of Peking Opera was already open to the world before it was introduced to British and American audiences. Chinese modern- ism in itself is a global history that cannot be contained within national borders...

... and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Stevens Henry , ed. (1886) 1970 . The Dawn of British Trade to the East Indies as Recorded in the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1599–1603 . New York : Franklin . Citations refer...

... role in early British modernism,” and I will argue that before the war and during it, when she spent so much time in France, Mansfield developed her satiric method to attack nationalism from a colonialist stance of marginality and exile. Finally, I will discuss how, in her later work, Mansfield...

... Press . Ellis Steve . 2007 . Virginia Woolf and the Victorians . New York : Cambridge University Press . Esty Jed . 2007 . “Virginia Woolf's Colony and the Adolescence of Modernist Fiction.” In Modernism and Colonialism: British and Irish Literature, 1899 – 1939 , edited...

... elements against which, but also through which, enlightened existence could be fore- grounded. Sensation works furthered the project of modernity by using art as a window into the mind. Emblematic examples of this genre, which dominated the British...

... on the western Indian Ocean, Timo- thy Davies examines the epistolary network that supported British private trade of the eighteenth century also to show the importance of intra-­Asian relations and networks. British merchants were dependent on Asian (and Armenian) partners and intermediaries...