World Views

"Hegglund's methodological aims in World Views are as daring as his prose is lucid. His book undertakes 'to read literature as geography by other means' and, conversely, to read geographical texts as literary (or at least rhetorical) in their reliance on various symbols, tropes, and codes of representation. The result is a genuinely interdisciplinary book: a refreshing, readable, well-organized and nuanced contribution to the new global modernist studies." --Rita Barnard, University of Pennsylvania "In World Views, Jon Hegglund makes the audacious claim that in the modernist era the imagination became geographic in a new way. Ranging widely in the borderlands of modernist and postcolonial writing, and of geography and literature, this beautifully written book offers a sweeping reassessment of modernism's scale-bending experiments, and thus of modernism's take on all space. World Views brilliantly recasts the spatial geopolitics of modernism." --Enda Duffy, University of California, Santa Barbara "World Views is a superb book that provocatively intervenes into current debates on global modernisms. In a set of exciting studies of diverse writers such as James Joyce, E. M. Forster, Amitav Ghosh, and Jawaharlal Nehru, Hegglund produces a persuasive account of how we should read literary modernism as geography by other means. World Views sets a new spatial agenda for modernist studies and should be read by all interested in the field." --Andrew Thacker, De Montfort University "By charting a geographic turn beginning in early twentieth-century writing, World Views offers a fresh approach to understanding fiction from modernism to the present day. Hegglund provides a carefully historicized, bracingly argued account of the continents and regions, oceans and borders that abound in twentieth-century 'novels that work like maps.'" --John Marx, University of California