Traces of another time : history and politics in postwar British fiction / Margaret Scanlan
1990, First Edition. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright and clean. Item #408994
ISBN: 0691068240
Physical description; 211 p. ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliography and index. Contents; PART ONE: Troubles in Ireland -- CHAPTER ONE. Iris Murdoch's The Red and the Green -- CHAPTER TWO. Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September and J. G. Farrell's Troubles -- CHAPTER THREE. Northern Ireland in Four Contemporary Novels -- PART TWO: Losing Confidence: Spies and Other Aliens -- CHAPTER FOUR. Philby and His Fictions -- CHAPTER FIVE. Iris Murdoch's Nuns and Soldiers -- PART THREE: Apocalypse -- CHAPTER SIX. Paul Scott's The Raj Quartet -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Doris Lessing's Children of Violence -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Anthony Burgess's The End of the World News. Subjects; English fiction 20th century History and criticism. Historical fiction, English History and criticism. Political fiction, English History and criticism. World War, 1939-1945 Great Britain Influence. Northern Ireland In literature. Ireland In literature.
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