End of empire and the English novel since 1945 /

"This first book-length study explores the history of post-war England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at that time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Particular genres are also discussed, incl...

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Other Authors: Gilmour, Rachael, 1973-, Schwarz, Bill, 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2011.
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505 0 |a 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. 
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