03528oam 22006254a 450 991048069260332120211004152545.01-78499-179-11-78499-178-3(CKB)3710000000529395(EBL)4706464(MiAaPQ)EBC4706464(OCoLC)960166164(MdBmJHUP)musev2_78499(EXLCZ)99371000000052939520150611e20152011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierEnd of empire and the English novel since 1945edited by Rachael Gilmour and Bill SchwarzManchester :Manchester University Press,2015.©2015.1 online resource (256 p.)Originally published: 2011.0-7190-8578-0 0-7190-9745-2 END OF EMPIRE and the English novel since 1945; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; 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-Jones4. 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 Brophy10. The return of the native: Pat Barker, David Peace and the regional novel after empire: James Procter11. Saturday's Enlightenment: David Alderson; Afterword: The English novel and the world: Elleke BoehmerThe first book-length critical work devoted to the impact of the end of empire, this book traces 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.Imperialism in literaturefast(OCoLC)fst00968142English fictionfast(OCoLC)fst00910817Decolonization in literaturefast(OCoLC)fst00889123Decolonization in literatureImperialism in literatureEnglish fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismCriticism, interpretation, etc.Electronic books. Imperialism in literature.English fiction.Decolonization in literature.Decolonization in literature.Imperialism in literature.English fictionHistory and criticism.823.03Schwarz Bill1951-Gilmour Rachael1973-MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910480692603321End of empire and the English novel since 19452150742UNINA