Autore: Jed Esty

This book describes a major literary culture caught in the act of becoming minor. In 1939, Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary, ‘Civilisation has shrunk.’ Her words captured not only the onset of World …

Unseasonable Youth examines a range of modernist-era fictions that cast doubt on the ideology of progress through the figure of stunted or endless adolescence. Novels of youth by Oscar Wilde, Olive S …

As the US becomes a second-place nation, can it shed the superpower nostalgia that still haunts the UK? The debate over the US’s fading hegemony has raged and sputtered for 50 years, glutting the mar …

An interdisciplinary collection of essays designed to map out a wide-ranging and productive future for postcolonial studies, this volume assesses the current state of the field and points toward its …