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"The 'transnational' turn has transformed modernist studies, challenging Western authority over modernism and positioning race and racial theories at the very centre of how we now understand modern literature. Modernism and Race examines relationships between racial typologies and literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, drawing on fin de siècle versions of anthropology, sociology, political science, linguistics and biology. Collectively, these essays interrogate the anxieties and desires that are expressed in, or projected onto, racialized figures. They include new outlines of how the critical field has developed, revaluations of canonical modernist figures like James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Ford Madox Ford and Wyndham Lewis, and accounts of writers often positioned at the margins of modernism, such as Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay and the Holocaust writers Solomon Perel and Gisella Perl. This timely collection by leading scholars of modernism will make an important contribution to a growing field"

English literature --- Modernism (Literature) --- Race in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Modernisme (littérature) --- Ethnicité --- Littérature anglophone --- Dans la littérature --- Modernisme (littérature) --- Ethnicité --- Littérature anglophone --- Dans la littérature

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Writing London and the Thames Estuary is an ambitious study of place and identity which resonates deeply against the troubled politics of contemporaneity. Drawing on a broad range of cultural materials including novels, film, theatre, tourist literature, topography, chorology and sociological writing, Len Platt traces the making of the estuary as margin by a metropolis that has been dependent on this region, sometimes for its very survival. Drawing on writers and artists ranging from Middleton, Defoe, Pepys, Dickens, Conrad and T.S. Eliot through to such contemporary figures as Iain Sinclair, Nicola Barker, Tracy Emin and Billy Childish, Platt offers a fascinating insight into the formation of ‘estuary grotesque’, the social dismissal out of which post-Brexit politics have emerged to such controversy.

English literature --- Geography in literature. --- National characteristics, English, in literature. --- Literature and society --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Topography in literature --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects --- London (England) --- Thames River (England) --- Thames River Estuary (England) --- Thames Estuary (England) --- River Thames (England) --- In literature.

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In the decades before the Second World War, popular musical theatre was one of the most influential forms of entertainment. This is the first book to reconstruct early popular musical theatre as a transnational and highly cosmopolitan industry that included everything from revues and operettas to dance halls and cabaret. Bringing together contributors from Britain and Germany, this collection moves beyond national theatre histories to study Anglo-German relations at a period of intense hostility and rivalry. Chapters frame the entertainment zones of London and Berlin against the wider trading routes of cultural transfer, where empire and transatlantic song and dance produced, perhaps for the first time, a genuinely international culture. Exploring adaptations and translations of works under the influence of political propaganda, this collection will be of interest both to musical theatre enthusiasts and to those interested in the wider history of modernism.

Musical theater --- Lyric theater --- Theater --- History --- London (England) --- Berlin (Germany) --- Stadt Berlin (Germany) --- Berlin (Germany : State) --- Berlim (Germany) --- Baralīna (Germany) --- Berolinum (Germany) --- Berlinum (Germany) --- Verolino (Germany) --- Land Berlin (Germany) --- Berlin State (Germany) --- Berlino (Germany) --- Berlijn (Germany) --- Berlin (Germany : West) --- Berlin (Germany : East) --- Social life and customs --- Théâtre musical --- Histoire --- Londres (GB) --- Berlin (Allemagne) --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Musical theater - England - London - History - 20th century --- Musical theater - England - London - History - 19th century --- Musical theater - Germany - Berlin - History - 20th century --- Musical theater - Germany - Berlin - History - 19th century --- London (England) - Social life and customs - 20th century --- London (England) - Social life and customs - 19th century --- Berlin (Germany) - Social life and customs - 20th century --- Berlin (Germany) - Social life and customs - 19th century