Table Of ContentMODERNISM, EMPIRE, WORLD
LITERATURE
After World War I, American, Irish and then Caribbean writers
boldly remade the world literary system long dominated by Paris
andLondon.Respondingtoliteraryrenaissancesandsocialupheavals
in their own countries and to the decline of war-devastated Europe,
émigréanddomestic-basedwritersproduceddazzlingnewworksthat
challengedLondon’sorParis’sauthoritytofixanddetermineliterary
value. In so doing, they propounded new conceptions of aesthetic
accomplishment that were later codified as ‘modernism’. However,
after World War II, an assertive American literary establishment
repurposed literary modernism to boost the cultural prestige of the
United States in the Cold War and tocontest Soviet conceptions of
‘worldliterature’.Here,inaccomplishedreadingsofmajorworksand
essaysbyHenryJames,EzraPound,W.B.Yeats,T.S.Eliot,James
Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O’Neill and Derek Walcott, Joe
ClearysituatesAnglophonemodernismintermsoftheriseandfallof
European and American empires, changing world literary systems,
and disputedhistories of‘world literature’.
is Professor of English at Yale University. His earlier
booksincludeLiterature,PartitionandtheNation-State:Cultureand
Conflict in Ireland, Israel and Palestine () and Outrageous
Fortune: Capital and Culture in Modern Ireland (). He is also
the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Irish Modernism ()
and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture
().
Published online by Cambridge University Press
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MODERNISM, EMPIRE,
WORLD LITERATURE
JOE CLEARY
YaleUniversity
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MODERNISM, EMPIRE, WORLD
LITERATURE
After World War I, American, Irish and then Caribbean writers
boldly remade the world literary system long dominated by Paris
andLondon.Respondingtoliteraryrenaissancesandsocialupheavals
in their own countries and to the decline of war-devastated Europe,
émigréanddomestic-basedwritersproduceddazzlingnewworksthat
challengedLondon’sorParis’sauthoritytofixanddetermineliterary
value. In so doing, they propounded new conceptions of aesthetic
accomplishment that were later codified as ‘modernism’. However,
after World War II, an assertive American literary establishment
repurposed literary modernism to boost the cultural prestige of the
United States in the Cold War and tocontest Soviet conceptions of
‘worldliterature’.Here,inaccomplishedreadingsofmajorworksand
essaysbyHenryJames,EzraPound,W.B.Yeats,T.S.Eliot,James
Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O’Neill and Derek Walcott, Joe
ClearysituatesAnglophonemodernismintermsoftheriseandfallof
European and American empires, changing world literary systems,
and disputedhistories of‘world literature’.
is Professor of English at Yale University. His earlier
booksincludeLiterature,PartitionandtheNation-State:Cultureand
Conflict in Ireland, Israel and Palestine () and Outrageous
Fortune: Capital and Culture in Modern Ireland (). He is also
the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Irish Modernism ()
and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture
().
Published online by Cambridge University Press
Published online by Cambridge University Press
MODERNISM, EMPIRE,
WORLD LITERATURE
JOE CLEARY
YaleUniversity
Published online by Cambridge University Press
UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridge,UnitedKingdom
OneLibertyPlaza,thFloor,NewYork,,USA
WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,,Australia
–,rdFloor,Plot,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre,NewDelhi–,India
AnsonRoad,#–/,Singapore
CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge.
ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof
education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence.
www.cambridge.org
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©JoeCleary
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:Cambridge,UnitedKingdom:CambridgeUniversityPress,.|
Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex.
:(print)|(ebook)|
(hardback)|(paperback)|(epub)
::Literature,Modern–thcentury–Historyandcriticism.|American
literature–thcentury–Historyandcriticism.|Englishliterature–thcentury–History
andcriticism.|Englishliterature–Irishauthors–Historyandcriticism.|
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anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain,
accurateorappropriate.
Published online by Cambridge University Press
MODERNISM, EMPIRE, WORLD
LITERATURE
After World War I, American, Irish and then Caribbean writers
boldly remade the world literary system long dominated by Paris
andLondon.Respondingtoliteraryrenaissancesandsocialupheavals
in their own countries and to the decline of war-devastated Europe,
émigréanddomestic-basedwritersproduceddazzlingnewworksthat
challengedLondon’sorParis’sauthoritytofixanddetermineliterary
value. In so doing, they propounded new conceptions of aesthetic
accomplishment that were later codified as ‘modernism’. However,
after World War II, an assertive American literary establishment
repurposed literary modernism to boost the cultural prestige of the
United States in the Cold War and tocontest Soviet conceptions of
‘worldliterature’.Here,inaccomplishedreadingsofmajorworksand
essaysbyHenryJames,EzraPound,W.B.Yeats,T.S.Eliot,James
Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O’Neill and Derek Walcott, Joe
ClearysituatesAnglophonemodernismintermsoftheriseandfallof
European and American empires, changing world literary systems,
and disputedhistories of‘world literature’.
is Professor of English at Yale University. His earlier
booksincludeLiterature,PartitionandtheNation-State:Cultureand
Conflict in Ireland, Israel and Palestine () and Outrageous
Fortune: Capital and Culture in Modern Ireland (). He is also
the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Irish Modernism ()
and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture
().
Published online by Cambridge University Press
Published online by Cambridge University Press
