A Shrinking Island - Modernism and National Culture in England

Acknowledgments ix Introduction Late Modernism and the Anthropological Turn 1(22) Modernism and Metropolitan Perception in England 23(31) The Other Side of the Hedge 23(5) ``A Planet Full of Scraps'' 28(3) Englishness aslvs. Modernity 31(5) Autoethnography and the Romance of Retrenchment 36(10) Modernist Valedictions circa 1940 46(8) Insular Rites: Virginia Woolf and the Late Modernist Pageant-Play 54(54) Amnesia in Fancy Dress: Pageants for a New Century 56(6) ``A Little Nucleus of Eternity'': J. C. Powys's A Glastonbury Romance 62(8) Rebuilding the Ruined House: T. S. Eliot's The Rock 70(6) ``Innocent Island'': E. M. Forster's Passage to England 76(9) Island Stories and Modernist Ends in Between the Acts 85(23) Insular Time: T. S. Eliot and Modernism's English End 108(55) The Antidiasporic Imagination 108(4) Metropolitan Standard Time 112(5) Anglocentric Revivals 117(10) Notes from a Shrinking Island 127(8) Four Quartets and the Chronotope of Englishness 135(28) Becoming Minor 163(64) The Keynesian National Object: Late Modernism and The General Theory 166(16) Local Color: English Cultural Studies as Home Anthropology 182(16) Ethnography in Reverse: (Post)colonial Writers in Fifties England 198(17) Conclusion: Minority Culture and Minor Culture 215(12) Notes 227(50) Index 277