Diplomacy and the Modern Novel : : France, Britain, and the Mission of Literature / / ed. by Isabelle Daunais, Allan Hepburn.
Between 1900 and 1960, many writers in France and Britain either had parallel careers in diplomatic corps or frequented diplomatic circles: Paul Claudel, Albert Cohen, Lawrence Durrell, Graham Greene, John le Carré, André Malraux, Nancy Mitford, Marcel Proust, and others. What attracts writers to di...
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| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- The Mission of Literature: Modern Novels and Diplomacy
- Part One: Diplomatic Experience
- 1. Making a Song and Dance of It: Staging Diplomacy in William Gerhardi’s Early Novels
- 2. The League of Nations As Seen by Albert Cohen: A User’s Guide to Social Magic
- 3. Modern Negotiations: Harold Nicolson’s Peacemaking 1919 and Public Faces
- Part Two: Novels and Diplomacy
- 4. “Diplomatic Dispatch Style”: Towards a New Aesthetic of the Novel
- 5. Conrad’s Politics of Idealism: Diplomacy without Diplomats
- 6. André Gide and the Art of Evasion
- Part Three: Documents
- 7. Proust’s Epistolary Diplomacy: Antoine Bibesco, René Peter, and “Salaïsme”
- 8. The Art of Conversation: Nancy Mitford, France, and Cultural Diplomacy
- Part Four: Foreign Affairs
- 9. Action, Diplomacy, Art: André Malraux and Graham Greene
- 10. Mythography and Diplomacy in Works by Ian Fleming and John le Carré
- 11. Lawrence Durrell: Diplomacy as Farce
- Works Cited
- Contributors
- Index