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

Christine Berberich shows that the English gentleman has proven to be a remarkably adaptable and relevant ideal that continues to influence not only literature but other forms of representation, including the media and advertising industries. Paying particular attention to the relationship of nostal...

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Основен автор: Berberich, Christine, 1969-
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ℗♭2007.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Image of the English gentleman in twentieth-century literature.
Съдържание:
  • 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.