Representations of Anglo-Saxonism in Modernist Culture

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This research has been concerned with various representations of Anglo-Saxonism in modernist cultural texts: trans-Pacific movements and migrations of non-white people in D. H. Lawrence's Aaron's Rod, racial, linguistic and geopolitical associations and dissociations between the British Empire and America in Henry James's The Thagic Muse, images and traces of war battles and regional political conflicts outside Europe after the First World War in Virginia Woolfs Jacob's Room and the related texts. My readings have clarified the close ideological relations between these geopolitical representations and the transnational, liberalist discourses of British imperialism, by analyzing the transnational cultural co-operation and antagonism between Britain and America in modernist period. In other words, the British Empire and its global culture of empire have been revealed to be (over)determined and redefined in contradictory relations with the nationalist and imperialist powers of America and the Pacific region.In particular, my reconsideration of Woolfs representations of the First World War has been published as "Generations, Legacies, and Imperialism: The Greco-Turkish War and Jacob's ~Room" in the Selected Papers from the Twelfth Annual Virginia Woolf Conference. And I have read a paper on Lawrence's Aaron ~Rod, "Empire, the Pacific and Lawrence's Leadership Novels" at the Ninth International D. H. Lawrence Conference.