Traces of Another Time : : History and Politics in Postwar British Fiction / / Margaret Scanlan.
Is the historical novel the outmoded genre that some people imagine--form inseparable from romanticism, nationalism, and the nineteenth century? In this stimulating volume, Margaret Scanlan answers a convincing "no," as she demonstrates the relevance of historical novels by well-known figu...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1990 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (226 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART ONE: Troubles in Ireland
- CHAPTER ONE. Iris Murdoch's The Red and the Green
- CHAPTER TWO. Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September and J. G. Farrell's Troubles
- CHAPTER THREE. Northern Ireland in Four Contemporary Novels
- PART TWO: Losing Confidence: Spies and Other Aliens
- CHAPTER FOUR. Philby and His Fictions
- CHAPTER FIVE. Iris Murdoch's Nuns and Soldiers
- PART THREE: Apocalypse
- CHAPTER SIX. Paul Scott's The Raj Quartet
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Doris Lessing's Children of Violence
- CHAPTER EIGHT. Anthony Burgess's The End of the World News
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index