Nation, Ethnicity, and the Geography of British Fiction, 1880-1940

Abstract

Among the most pressing problems in modernist literary studies are those re-lated to Britain’s engagement with the wider world under empire and to its ownrapidly evolving urban spaces in the years before the Second World War. In both cases, the literary-geographic imagination—or unconscious—of the periodbetween 1880 and 1940 can help to shed light on how texts by British and British-aligned writers of the era understood these issues and how they evolved over time.