The image of the English gentleman in twentieth-century literature

Englishness and nostalgia

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The image of the English gentleman in twentieth-century literature

Englishness and nostalgia

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Ashgate
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English

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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

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Aldershot, Hants, England, Burlington, VT

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Dewey Decimal Class
820.9/3521
Library of Congress
PR888.G357 B47 2007

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Pagination
p. cm.

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Open Library
OL17177996M
Internet Archive
imageenglishgent00berb_959
ISBN 13
9780754661269
LCCN
2007008443
Library Thing
8789408
Goodreads
5411916

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