A Shrinking Island: Modernism and National Culture in England by Jed Esty

A Shrinking Island: Modernism and National Culture in England

Jed Esty

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nonfiction classics literary challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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 War II, but also a longer-term reversal of nati...

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