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Esty, Jed. A Shrinking Island: Modernism and National Culture in England. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. ix + 285 pp. Paper $19.95
In this complex and compelling book, Esty takes aim at the commonly held be lief that as the British Empire slowly declined in the twentieth century, so too did English literature, which became increasingly "provincial and ex-centric." Instead, he concentrates on late...





