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This collection of essays offers a wide-ranging and provocative reassessment of the British novel's achievements after modernism. The book identifies continuities of preoccupation - with national identity, historiography and the challenge to literary form presented by public and private violenc...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
This collection of essays offers a wide-ranging and provocative reassessment of the British novel's achievements after modernism. The book identifies continuities of preoccupation - with national identity, historiography and the challenge to literary form presented by public and private violence - that span the entire century. |
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Ebook. Originally published in: 2007. |
| Carrier Form: | 240 p. |
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9781403986429 9780230801394 : 0230801390 : |
| CLC: | I11 |
| Contents: | Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: British Fiction After Modernism-- M.MacKay & L.Stonebridge Rendering Justice to the Visible World: History, Politics and National Identity in the Novels of Graham Greene-- A.Gasiorek The Case for Storm Jameson-- E.Maslen The Nooks and Crannies of her Being: Howard Spring's Shabby Tiger and Northern Camp-- P.Magrs A Plausible Magic: The Novels of Henry Green-- J.Wood Varieties of Modernism, Varieties of Incomprehension: Patrick Hamilton and Elizabeth Bowen-- J.Mepham James Hanley and the Colours of War G.Barrett The Girl on a Swing: Childho |