Research Catalog

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Description

1. viii, 207 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

1. Gentry in literature
2. Upper class in literature
3. Group identity in literature
4. Men in literature
5. Nostalgia in literature
6. English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
7. National characteristics, English, in literature

Contents

1. The gentleman : an elusive term -- From knight to public-school boy : following the gentleman through the ages -- A popular literary trope : a brief history of the gentleman in literature -- The survival of the gentleman : Siegfried Sassoon, England and the sporting gentleman -- Dancing to the music of Widmerpool : the gentleman in Anthony Powell's A dance to the music of time -- Arcadia revisited? : Evelyn Waugh's gentlemen -- A pillar upholding nothing : nostalgia, Englishness and the English gentleman in Kazuo Ishiguro's The remains of the day -- Regression and reaction : past realities and future possibilities.

Call number

1. JFE 08-2958

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-201) and index.

Author

1. Berberich, Christine, 1969-

Title

1. The image of the English gentleman in twentieth-century literature : Englishness and nostalgia / Christine Berberich.

Imprint

1. Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-201) and index.

Connect to:

1. Table of contents only

LCCN

1. 2007008443

ISBN

1. 9780754661269 (alk. paper)
2. 0754661261 (alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 08-2958