| Description |
1 online resource |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
"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, including the family saga, travel writing, detective fiction and popular romances. All included reflect on the predicament of an England which no longer lies at the centre of imperial power, arriving at a fascinating diversity of conclusions about the meaning and consequences of the end of empire. Some explicitly address the empire and its demise; others do so in a more muted form. Gilmour and Schwarz link together the historical question of the end of the British empire with the literary issue of the place of the English novel in the post-war years, for the first time addressing the literary responses and the privileged location of the novel for discussing what decolonisation meant for the domestic English population of the metropole. Rather than emphasizing the 'provincial' properties, emphasis is given to the curious echoes and displacements which operate inside the English postwar novel during the years of decolonization. This will interest scholars and general readers concerned with the fate of the English novel and the domestic impact of decolonisation, and is an important inclusion to the expanding historical canon which deals with the end of empire."--Publisher description. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Commonwealth. |
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Commonwealth. |
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English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Decolonization in literature.
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Decolonization in literature. |
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Imperialism in literature.
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Imperialism in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Gilmour, Rachael, 1973-
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Schwarz, Bill, 1951-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: End of empire and the English novel since 1945 9780719085789 (OCoLC)724656998 |
| ISBN |
9781784991784 (electronic book) |
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1784991783 (electronic book) |
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9780719085789 |
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0719085780 |
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9780719097454 |
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0719097452 |
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