Toby Manning

John le Carré and the Cold War (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

John le Carré and the Cold War explores the historical contexts and political implications of le Carré's major Cold-War novels. The first in-depth study of le Carré this century, this book analyses his work in light of key topics in 20th-century history, including containment of Communism, decolonization, the Berlin Wall, the Cuban missile crisis, the Cambridge spy-ring, the Vietnam War, the 70s oil crisis and Thatcherism. Examining The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974), Smiley's People (1979) and other novels, this book offers an illuminating picture of Cold-War Britain, while situating le Carré's work alongside that of George Orwell, Graham Greene and Ian Fleming. Providing a valuable contribution to contemporary understandings of both British spy fiction and post-war fiction, Toby Manning challenges the critical consensus to reveal a considerably less radical writer than is conventionally presented.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350036406
• Artikelnr.: 50915339

Autorenporträt

Toby Manning has taught at Queen Mary University, Brunel University and the University of Birmingham. A former journalist, he is also the author of The Rough Guide to Pink Floyd (2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction: 'A Nation's Political Health'
The enemy
The state
The nation
Cold-War consensus to critical consensus
Chapter 1. 'Murderers and Spies': The Communist Threat and Call for the
Dead
'Mass philosophy': The Cold-War enemy
'A symbol of nothing at all': The British state
'Deep love of England': Imagining the nation
'Who was then the gentleman?': Nation, state and enemy
Chapter 2. 'Breeze Blocks and Barbed Wire': The Berlin Wall and The Spy Who
Came in from the Cold
'Party Terms': The communist enemy
'Not quite a gentleman': Leamas and the classless British nation
'We are defensive': English empiricism, ideology and the British state
Chapter 3. 'Looking at His Own Reflection': The Establishment and The
Looking Glass War
'A sort of Cuba situation': Reflections of the enemy
'Government hirings': The Department, the Circus and the British state
'The mystery of England': The nation and class
Chapter 4. 'Holding the World Together': The Cambridge Spies and Tinker
Tailor Soldier Spy
'The imminent collapse of the nation': England and the establishment
'Russians taken over the government': The infiltrated British state
'Fanaticism' and 'mindless treason': Enemy characterization
'Haydon's crooked deathmask': State, nation and enemy
Chapter 5. 'All One Vanishing World': The Honourable Schoolboy, Colonialism
and Communism
'Her colonial grip': Britain, the Empire and the special relationship
'A spreading plague': Communism and Southeast Asia
Chapter 6. 'Only People': Humanism, Populism, the Second Cold War and
Smiley's People
'Deniable blessing': Smiley and the British state
'British to the core': Smiley's tour of the nation
'The danger is absolute": Karla and communism
'Half-angels' and 'half-devils': Smiley, Karla and the Cold War
Conclusion: 'Man, Not the Mass'
The enemy
The state
The nation
Appendix I: Plot Synopses
Bibliography
Index