LEADER 04353nam 2200889 450 001 9910797721903321 005 20191129130701.0 010 $a1-78499-179-1 010 $a1-78499-178-3 024 7 $a10.7765/9781784991784 035 $a(CKB)3710000000529395 035 $a(EBL)4706464 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4706464 035 $a(OCoLC)960166164 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_78499 035 $a(UkMaJRU)992979626816101631 035 $a(DE-B1597)659390 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781784991784 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000529395 100 $a20191128h20152011 |y| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aEnd of empire and the English novel since 1945 /$fedited by Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz 210 1$aManchester, UK :$cManchester University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2011 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 243 pages) $cdigital file(s) 300 $aOriginally published: 2011. 311 $a0-7190-8578-0 311 $a0-7190-9745-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aEND 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-Jones 327 $a4. 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 Brophy 327 $a10. 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 Boehmer 330 8 $aThe 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. 606 $aEnglish fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aImperialism in literature 606 $aDecolonization in literature 606 $aLiterature$2mup 606 $aLiterary Studies: From C 1900 -$2bicssc 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh$2bisach 606 $aIreland$2thema 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc. 610 $aA Good Man in Africa. 610 $aAnglo-American attitudes. 610 $aBritish Empire. 610 $aEnglish novels. 610 $aEnglishness. 610 $aJohn Masters. 610 $aJosephine Tey. 610 $aKinjanja. 610 $aMoon Tiger. 610 $aPenelope Lively. 610 $aWilliam Boyd. 610 $aWilliam Golding. 610 $acolonial fiction. 610 $afamily saga. 610 $afemale crime novel. 610 $apostcolonial romance. 610 $atravel fiction. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aImperialism in literature. 615 0$aDecolonization in literature. 615 7$aLiterature 615 7$aLiterary Studies: From C 1900 - 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh 615 7$aIreland 676 $a823.91409358 702 $aSchwarz$b Bill$f1951- 702 $aGilmour$b Rachael$f1973- 801 2$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797721903321 996 $aEnd of empire and the English novel since 1945$93809675 997 $aUNINA