End of empire and the English novel since 1945. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz.
• Other Names: Gilmour, Rachael, 1973-; Schwarz, Bill, 1951-
• Contents: Introduction: end of empire and the English novel / Bill Schwarz -- The road to Airstrip One: Anglo-American attitudes in the English fiction of mid-century / Patrick Parrinder -- Josephine Tey and her descendents: conservative modernity and the female crime novel / Cora Kaplan -- Colonial fiction for liberal readers: John Masters and the Savage family saga / Richard Steadman-Jones -- The entropy of Englishness: reading empire's absence in the novels of William Golding / Rachel Gilmour -- The empire of romance: love in a postcolonial climate / Deborah Philips -- Passage from Kinjanja to Pimlico: William Boyd's comedy of imperial decline / Michael L. Ross -- Unlearning empire: Penelope Lively's Moon tiger / Huw Marsh -- 'I am not the British Isles on two legs': travel fiction and travelling fiction from D.H. Lawrence to Tim Parks / Suzanne Hobson -- Queer histories and postcolonial intimacies in Alan Hollinghurst's The line of beauty / Sarah Brophy -- The return of the native: Pat Barker, David Peace and the regional novel after empire / James Procter -- Saturday's Enlightenment / David Alderson -- Afterword: the English novel and the world / Elleke Boehmer.
• Publisher Details: Manchester New York : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 823.91409358; LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Decolonization in literature; Imperialism in literature; Englisch; Roman; Roman; Decolonization in literature; English fiction; Imperialism in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Englisch; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Aufsatzsammlung; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781784991784; 1784991783
• Related ISBNs: 9780719085789; 0719085780; 9780719097454; 0719097452
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
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