End of empire and the English novel since 1945. (2011)
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- Book
- Title:
- End of empire and the English novel since 1945. (2011)
- Main Title:
- End of empire and the English novel since 1945
- 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.
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