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

• Part I The Gentleman, Englishness and Nostalgia: Approaches, Explanations, Definitions: 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 -- Part II Of Heroes, Survivors and Dinosaurs: The Gentleman in 20th-Century 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 -- Part III The End of the Line?: Regression and reaction past realities and future possibilities; Bibliography; Index..

• Focusing on Siegfried Sassoon, Anthony Powell, Evelyn Waugh and Kazuo Ishiguro, whose presentations of the gentlemanly ideal are analysed in their specific cultural, historical, and sociological contexts, this book pays attention to the role of nostalgia and its relationship to 'Englishness'.. 

Ämnesord

Överklassen i litteraturen  (sao)

Nostalgi i litteraturen  (sao)

Engelsk litteratur  -- historia -- 1900-talet (sao)

Upper class in literature  (LCSH)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Ge.5 Litteraturhistoria: engelska: 1900-talet

G.096z Litteraturhistoria: skönlitteratur med särskilda motiv

G.096z Litteraturhistoria: skönlitteratur med särskilda motiv

Klassifikation

820.9009 (DDC)

809.93 (DDC)

82(410) (z)

Ge.5 (kssb/8)

G.096z Överklassen (kssb/8)

G.096z Nostalgi (kssb/8)