04353nam 2200889 450 991082530560332120191129130701.01-78499-179-11-78499-178-310.7765/9781784991784(CKB)3710000000529395(EBL)4706464(MiAaPQ)EBC4706464(OCoLC)960166164(MdBmJHUP)musev2_78499(UkMaJRU)992979626816101631(DE-B1597)659390(DE-B1597)9781784991784(EXLCZ)99371000000052939520191128h20152011 |y| 0engur||#---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEnd of empire and the English novel since 1945 /edited by Rachael Gilmour and Bill SchwarzManchester, UK :Manchester University Press,2015.©20111 online resource (xi, 243 pages) digital file(s)Originally published: 2011.0-7190-8578-0 0-7190-9745-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.English fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismImperialism in literatureDecolonization in literatureLiteraturemupLiterary Studies: From C 1900 -bicsscLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshbisachIrelandthemaCriticism, interpretation, etc.A Good Man in Africa.Anglo-American attitudes.British Empire.English novels.Englishness.John Masters.Josephine Tey.Kinjanja.Moon Tiger.Penelope Lively.William Boyd.William Golding.colonial fiction.family saga.female crime novel.postcolonial romance.travel fiction.English fictionHistory and criticism.Imperialism in literature.Decolonization in literature.LiteratureLiterary Studies: From C 1900 -LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshIreland823.91409358Schwarz Bill1951-Gilmour Rachael1973-UkMaJRUBOOK9910825305603321End of empire and the English novel since 19454033544UNINA