.... It argues that Woolf’s equation of synchronic time, water, and the landscape of the Scottish Hebrides expresses an important turning point in England’s imperial-oceanic sensibility, including the ways in which “Britishness” was conceived relative to a devolving archipelago. Ultimately, Woolf’s novel relies...

... and landscape, which stands to reason given that Irish writing has been so frequently involved in efforts to reclaim and reimagine a national terrain. But one could argue that Ireland’s history and cultures were actually more shaped by water, from the island’s situation in an Anglo-Celtic archipelago populated...

... with regional literatures all over the British and Irish archipelago, including Scottish, Welsh, and regional English, and with regional writers from America, such as Robert Frost. The literary devolution that comprises the largely untold story of twentieth-century “English” literature suggests...

... over possession of the island. By 1970, he can be found arguing “that an archipelago, whether Greek or West Indian, is bound to be a fertile area, particularly if it is a bridge between continents, and a variety of people settle there” (“Meanings” 49). In the decade...

.... Trajectories, demarcations, islands, archipelagoes, maps, compasses— the structuring metaphors of In Search of Russian Modernism are those of exploration, navigation, and cartography. The book’s title spells out its guiding conviction: because faulty methodological premises have led its researchers astray...

... modern enterprise, stranded like silty, barren islets in an archipelago of indiffer- ence within the floodwaters of “hysterical realism” and post-imperial romance? Is their untimeliness of that sort—reactive, backward-looking, formally nostalgic? Surely not. It would be preferable to argue...

... who articulate the region’s difficulty in representing its own reality within Western classifications of realism that exclude what they cannot account for. Within the Caribbean counter-imaginary, the slave ship, the sea, the archipelago, the island’s landscapes, flora and fauna, weather...

... of belonging that John Brannigan associates with the coastal and oceanic, as opposed to the national or global, in his recent Archipelagic Modernism (2014). Like Brannigan and Nicholas Allen, who have sought to revise the histories of modernist writing from the North Atlantic archipelago in these terms...

... rather than marginal in understanding other contem­ 201 Charles W. Pollard porary cultural exchanges. He even goes so far as to claim that “we are all Caribbeans now in our urban archipelagos,” which suggests that Wal­ cott’s recasting of Joyce has a wider cultural...

... feel at its passing—at the loss of a communal identity that, at least imaginatively, could connect diverse populations, both across the globe and within the British archipelago itself. Rhoda loves Percival because through him she can believe that India, with its “twisted jungle, swarms of men...

... of resined straightness from north-wind hardened Sweden’s once-opposed-to- compromise archipelago of rocks. Washington and Gustavus Adolphus, forgive our decay. (131) That Moore initially sets her poem in a museum...

... publication by Alfred Russel Wallace, who had, during his own journey in the Malay Archipelago, discovered natural selection, but with- out the detailed and elaborate evidence Darwin had long been compiling. Thus he called his 1859 version an abstract and continued to expand and revise it. Both Moore...