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End of empire and the English novel since 1945 /
"This first book-length study explores the history of post-war England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at that time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Particular genres are also discussed, incl...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Manchester ; New York :
Manchester University Press,
2011.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.