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