The image of the English gentleman in twentieth-century literature : Englishness and nostalgia /
Berberich, Christine, 1969-
The image of the English gentleman in twentieth-century literature : Englishness and nostalgia / Christine Berberich - Aldershot, Hampshire, England : Ashgate, 2007 - viii, 207 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-201) and index
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
9780754661269 (alk. paper) RM323.95 0754661261 (alk. paper)
English fiction--History and criticism--20th century
Gentry in literature
Men in literature
Upper class in literature
Nostalgia in literature
National characteristics, English, in literature
Group identity in literature
The image of the English gentleman in twentieth-century literature : Englishness and nostalgia / Christine Berberich - Aldershot, Hampshire, England : Ashgate, 2007 - viii, 207 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-201) and index
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
9780754661269 (alk. paper) RM323.95 0754661261 (alk. paper)
English fiction--History and criticism--20th century
Gentry in literature
Men in literature
Upper class in literature
Nostalgia in literature
National characteristics, English, in literature
Group identity in literature