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Article: Elephants in the Labyrinth of Empire: Modernism and the Menagerie in The Old Wives' Tale.
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- Twentieth Century Literature
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- June 22, 2003
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Despite his deep sympathies for things Continental and a mild contempt for narrowly English cultural and political views, Arnold Bennett and his work came to be regarded as essentially provincial over the course of the twentieth century. This characterization put him at odds with high modernism and its cosmopolitan exponents, even when they became committed to a certain insularity of their own. In the years following Bennett's death in 1931, prominent modernists such as Virginia Woolf and T. S. Eliot embarked upon a "demetropolitanization of English literature" (Esty 251), but by that point Woolf had declared Bennett's literary conventions the equivalent of "ruin" and ...
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