Archipelagic Modernism : Literature in the Irish and British Isles, 1890-1970

Offers a new archipelagic history of twentieth-century literature in Britain and IrelandArchipelagic Modernism examines the anglophone literatures of the archipelago from 1890 to 1970 for what they tell us about changing identities, geographies, and ecologies. The book argues that these literatures constitute an important resource for how we might begin to think about alternativepolitical geographies, and alternative practices of belonging to place and environment. From the height of the British Empire in 1890, to the increasing sense by 1970 of the imminent "break-up" of Britain, "archipelagic modernism" turned to the "peripheral" spaces of islands, coastlines, and the seato re-invent the Irish and British archipelago as a plural and connective space.