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Works such as Joseph Conrad's __Heart of Darkness__ and __Lord Jim__, Virginia Woolf's __The Voyage Out__, E. M. Forster's __A Passage to India__, and Evelyn Waugh's __A Handful of Dust__ explore the relationship between Britain and its colonies when the British Empire was at its height. David Adams observes that, because of their structure and specific literary allusions, they also demand to be read in relation to the epic tradition. The elegantly written and powerfully argued __Colonial Odysseys__ focuses on narratives published in English between 1890 and 1940 in which protagonists journey from the familiar world of Europe to alien colonial worlds. The underlying concerns of these narratives, Adams discovers, are often less political or literary than metaphysical: in each of these fictions a major character dies as a result of the journey, inviting reflection on the negation of existence. Repeatedly, imaginative encounters with distant, uncanny colonies produce familiar, insular presentations of life as an odyssey, with death as the home port. Expanding postcolonial and Marxist theories by drawing on the philosophy of Hans Blumenberg, Adams finds in this preoccupation with morta

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Author

Adams, David

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501720420

Category

nonfiction