The image of the English gentleman in twentieth-century literature Englishness and nostalgia
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate
c2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Sumario |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b18344215*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
