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Title:

End of empire and the English novel since 1945 / edited by Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz.

Publisher:

Manchester University Press :

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

xi, 243 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Decolonization in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Commonwealth.
Roman.
Englisch.
Geschichte 1945-2011.
Aufsatzsammlung.

Other Authors:

Gilmour, Rachael, 1973-
Schwarz, Bill, 1951-

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

0719085780
9780719085789

OCLC:

(OCoLC)724656998

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)