End of empire and the English novel since 1945 (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Gilmour, Rachael; Schwarz, Bill

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

First book-length critical work devoted to the impact of the end of empire and traces of imperial memory in mainstream English Literature since the Second World War. Authors studied include Josephine Tey, William Golding, Penelope Lively, David Peace and Ian McEwan. Represents the best of current scholarship.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784991791
• Artikelnr.: 57473458

Autorenporträt

Rachael Gilmour is Lecturer in Postcolonial Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. Bill Schwarz is Reader in Postcolonial Studies at Queen Mary, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction: end of empire and the English
novel (Bill Schwarz) 1. The road to Airstrip One: Anglo-American attitudes
in the English fiction of mid-century (Patrick Parrinder) 2. Josephine Tey
and her descendants: conservative modernity and the female crime novel
(Cora Kaplan) 3. Colonial fiction for liberal readers: John Masters and the
Savage family saga (Richard Steadman-Jones) 4. The entropy of Englishness:
reading empire's absence in the novels of William Golding (Rachael Gilmour)
5. The empire of romance: love in a postcolonial climate (Deborah Philips)
6. Passage from Kinjanja to Pimlico: William Boyd's comedy of imperial
decline (Michael L. Ross) 7. Unlearning empire: Penelope Lively's Moon
Tiger (Huw Marsh) 8. I am not the British Isles on two legs': travel
fiction and travelling fiction from D.H. Lawrence to Tim Parks (Suzanne
Hobson) 9. Queer histories and postcolonial intimacies in Alan
Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty (Sarah Brophy) 10. The return of the
native: Pat Barker, David Peace and the regional novel after empire (James
Procter) 11. Saturday's enlightenment (David Alderson) Afterword (Elleke
Boehmer)