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End of empire and the English novel since 1945 / / edited by Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz
| End of empire and the English novel since 1945 / / edited by Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xi, 243 pages) : digital file(s) |
| Disciplina | 823.91409358 |
| Soggetto topico |
English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Imperialism in literature Decolonization in literature Literature Literary Studies: From C 1900 - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Ireland |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Soggetto non controllato |
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 |
| ISBN |
1-78499-179-1
1-78499-178-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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-Jones
4. 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 10. 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797721903321 |
| Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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End of empire and the English novel since 1945 / / edited by Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz
| End of empire and the English novel since 1945 / / edited by Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xi, 243 pages) : digital file(s) |
| Disciplina | 823.91409358 |
| Soggetto topico |
English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Imperialism in literature Decolonization in literature Literature Literary Studies: From C 1900 - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Ireland |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Soggetto non controllato |
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 |
| ISBN |
1-78499-179-1
1-78499-178-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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-Jones
4. 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 10. 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825305603321 |
| Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The politics of Englishness [[electronic resource] /] / Arthur Aughey
| The politics of Englishness [[electronic resource] /] / Arthur Aughey |
| Autore | Aughey Arthur |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (265 p.) |
| Disciplina | 305.82/1 |
| Soggetto topico |
National characteristics, English - History
Nationalism - England - History National characteristics, British - History Nationalism - Great Britain - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
British governance
Britishness England English Question English identity English political identity English polity Englishness political stability regionalism |
| ISBN |
1-84779-605-2
1-78170-130-X 1-84779-204-9 |
| Classificazione | 71.52 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | pt. I. Legends of Englishness -- pt. II. Anxieties of Englishness -- pt. III. Locations of Englishness. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791946703321 |
Aughey Arthur
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| Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press | ||
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Postcolonial Contraventions
| Postcolonial Contraventions |
| Autore | Chrisman Laura |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (209 pages) |
| Disciplina | 306.2 |
| Soggetto topico | Decolonization |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Englishness
Heart of Darkness South African literature black Atlantic studies black transnationalism colonial discourse analysis cosmopolitanism imperial literature postcolonial theory utopian discourse |
| ISBN |
1-84779-532-3
1-5261-3757-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I Imperialism -- 1 Tale of the city -- 2 Gendering imperialism -- 3 Empire's culture in Fredric Jameson, Edward Said and Gayatri Spivak -- Part II Transnationalism and race -- 4 Journeying to death -- 5 Black Atlantic nationalism -- 6 Transnational productions of Englishness -- Part III Postcolonial theoretical politics -- 7 Theorising race, racism and culture -- 8 Robert Young and the ironic authority of postcolonial criticism -- 9 Cultural studies in the new South Africa -- 10 'The Killer That Doesn't Pay Back' -- 11 You can get there from here -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996565572003316 |
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Chrisman Laura
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| Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2003 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Priestley's England [[electronic resource] ] : J.B. Priestley and English culture / / John Baxendale
| Priestley's England [[electronic resource] ] : J.B. Priestley and English culture / / John Baxendale |
| Autore | Baxendale John |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (2 p.) |
| Disciplina | 823.912 |
| Soggetto topico | HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Admass
CND Cold War English Journey Englishness J. B. Priestley tradition twentieth-century Britain wartime broadcasts welfare state |
| ISBN |
1-84779-644-3
1-78170-066-4 1-84779-132-8 |
| Classificazione | HM 3935 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 9780719072864; 9780719072864 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788623003321 |
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Baxendale John
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| Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2007 | ||
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Priestley's England : J.B. Priestley and English culture / / John Baxendale
| Priestley's England : J.B. Priestley and English culture / / John Baxendale |
| Autore | Baxendale John |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (2 p.) |
| Disciplina | 823.912 |
| Soggetto topico | HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Admass
CND Cold War English Journey Englishness J. B. Priestley tradition twentieth-century Britain wartime broadcasts welfare state |
| ISBN |
9781847796448
1847796443 9781781700662 1781700664 9781847791320 1847791328 |
| Classificazione | HM 3935 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 9780719072864; 9780719072864 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910955834603321 |
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Baxendale John
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| Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2007 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The road to Brexit : a cultural perspective on British attitudes to Europe / / Ina Habermann
| The road to Brexit : a cultural perspective on British attitudes to Europe / / Ina Habermann |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 256 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 327.4104 |
| Collana | Manchester scholarship online |
| Soggetto topico |
British - Attitudes
Public opinion - Great Britain LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Soggetto non controllato |
BrexLit
Brexit British exceptionalism Britishness Cultural identity Cultural memory English literature Englishness European Union Euroscepticism Island myth |
| ISBN |
1-5261-4510-3
1-5261-5555-9 1-5261-4509-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction : understanding the past, facing the future / Ina Habermann -- Not with a bang but a whimper : Brexit in historical perspective / Robert Holland -- 'This is something which we know, in our bones, we cannot do' : hopes and fears for a united Europe in Britain after the Second World War / Lara Feigel and Alisa Miller -- EU enlargement and the freedom of movement : imagined communities in the Conservative Party's discourse on Europe (1997-2016) / Marlene Herrschaft- Iden -- The discursive role of Europe in a disunited kingdom / Klaus Stolz -- 'Extr'ord'nary people, the Germans' : Germans as aliens in post-war British popular culture / Judith Vonberg -- 'I don't want to be a European' : the European other in British cultural discourse / Menno Spiering -- The dystopian nightmare of a European superstate : British fiction and the EU / Lisa Bischoff -- A case for a green Brexit? Paul Kingsnorth, John Berger and the pros and cons of a sense of place / Christian Schmitt- Kilb -- Brexit and the Tudor turn : Philippa Gregory's narratives of national grievance / Siobhan O'Connor -- Guards of Brexit? Revisiting the cultural significance of the white cliffs of Dover / Melanie Küng -- From Iron Curtains to Iron Cliffs : British travel writing between East and West / Blanka Blagojevic -- Fifty years of unbelonging : a Gibraltarian writer's personal testimonial on the road to Brexit / M.G. Sanchez. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910794024803321 |
| Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2021 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The road to Brexit : a cultural perspective on British attitudes to Europe / / Ina Habermann
| The road to Brexit : a cultural perspective on British attitudes to Europe / / Ina Habermann |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 256 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 327.4104 |
| Collana | Manchester scholarship online |
| Soggetto topico |
British - Attitudes
Public opinion - Great Britain LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Soggetto non controllato |
BrexLit
Brexit British exceptionalism Britishness Cultural identity Cultural memory English literature Englishness European Union Euroscepticism Island myth |
| ISBN |
1-5261-4510-3
1-5261-5555-9 1-5261-4509-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction : understanding the past, facing the future / Ina Habermann -- Not with a bang but a whimper : Brexit in historical perspective / Robert Holland -- 'This is something which we know, in our bones, we cannot do' : hopes and fears for a united Europe in Britain after the Second World War / Lara Feigel and Alisa Miller -- EU enlargement and the freedom of movement : imagined communities in the Conservative Party's discourse on Europe (1997-2016) / Marlene Herrschaft- Iden -- The discursive role of Europe in a disunited kingdom / Klaus Stolz -- 'Extr'ord'nary people, the Germans' : Germans as aliens in post-war British popular culture / Judith Vonberg -- 'I don't want to be a European' : the European other in British cultural discourse / Menno Spiering -- The dystopian nightmare of a European superstate : British fiction and the EU / Lisa Bischoff -- A case for a green Brexit? Paul Kingsnorth, John Berger and the pros and cons of a sense of place / Christian Schmitt- Kilb -- Brexit and the Tudor turn : Philippa Gregory's narratives of national grievance / Siobhan O'Connor -- Guards of Brexit? Revisiting the cultural significance of the white cliffs of Dover / Melanie Küng -- From Iron Curtains to Iron Cliffs : British travel writing between East and West / Blanka Blagojevic -- Fifty years of unbelonging : a Gibraltarian writer's personal testimonial on the road to Brexit / M.G. Sanchez. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910812835103321 |
| Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2021 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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This England [[electronic resource] ] : essays on the English nation and Commonwealth in the sixteenth century / / Patrick Collinson
| This England [[electronic resource] ] : essays on the English nation and Commonwealth in the sixteenth century / / Patrick Collinson |
| Autore | Collinson Patrick |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (329 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.09 |
| Collana |
Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain |
| Soggetto topico | HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Elizabethans
English language Englishness Protestant Reformation Queen Elizabeth I. citizen of England commonwealth cultural nationalism sixteenth century succession |
| ISBN |
1-84779-791-1
1-78170-203-9 1-84779-415-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Copyright; Contents; List of abbreviations; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION This England: race, nation, patriotism; 1. The politics of religion and the religion of politics in Elizabethan England; 2. The Elizabethan exclusion crisis and the Elizabethan polity; 3. Servants and citizens: Robert Beale and other Elizabethans; 4. Pulling the strings: religion and politics in the progress of 1578; 5. Elizabeth I and the verdicts of history; 6. Biblical rhetoric: the English nation and national sentiment in the prophetic mode; 7. John Foxe and national consciousness
8. Truth, lies and fiction in sixteenth-century Protestant historiography 9. One of us? William Camden and the making of history; 10. William Camden and the anti-myth of Elizabeth: setting the mould?; 11. John Stow and nostalgic antiquarianism; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791732303321 |
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Collinson Patrick
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| Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press | ||
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Why pamper life's complexities? : Essays on The Smiths / / edited by Sean Campbell and Colin Coulter
| Why pamper life's complexities? : Essays on The Smiths / / edited by Sean Campbell and Colin Coulter |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Manchester University Press, , 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 pages) |
| Disciplina | 782.42166092/2 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
CoulterColin <1966->
CampbellSean <1971-> |
| Collana | Music and society |
| Soggetto topico | Rock music - Social aspects - England |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Catholicism
Englishness Manchester Morrissey Thatcherism The Smiths cultural iconography kitchen-sink dramas musical poetics national identity pop culture studies popular culture sexuality suicide |
| ISBN | 0-7190-9502-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 'Why pamper life's complexities?' : an introduction to the book / Sean Campbell and Colin Coulter -- 'Has the world changed or have I changed?' : The Smiths and the challenge of Thatcherism / Joseph Brooker -- 'Irish blood, English heart' : ambivalence, unease and The Smiths / Sean Campbell -- 'Heaven knows we'll soon be dust' : Catholicism and devotion in The Smiths / Eoin Devereux -- 'Sing me to sleep' : suicide, philosophy and The Smiths / Kieran Cashell -- 'A boy in the bush' : childhood, sexualitiy and The Smiths / Sheila Whiteley -- 'This way and that way' : toward a musical poetics of The Smiths / Jonathan Hiam -- 'I don't owe you anything' : The Smiths and kitchen-sink cinema / Cecília Mello -- 'A double bed and a stalwart lover for sure' : The Smiths, the death of pop and the not so hidden injuries of class / Colin Coulter -- Last night we dreamt that somebody loved us : Smiths fans (and me) in the late 1980s / Karl Maton -- 'When we're in your scholarly room' : the media, academia, and The Smiths / Fergus Campbell -- 'So much to answer for' : what do The Smiths mean to Manchester? / Julian Stringer -- 'Take me back to dear old Blighty' : Englishness, pop and The Smiths / Kari Kallioniemi -- Guantánamo, here we come : out of place with The Smiths / Nabeel Zuberi. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798743203321 |
| New York : , : Manchester University Press, , 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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