The image of the English gentleman in twentieth-century literature
Subtitle: Englishness and nostalgia
By: by Christine Berberich.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754661269
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The gentleman : an elusive term; title: From knight to public-school boy : following the gentleman through the ages; title: A popular literary trope : a brief history of the gentleman in literature; title: The survival of the gentleman : Siegfried Sassoon, England and the sporting gentleman; title: Dancing to the music of Widmerpool : the gentleman in Anthony Powell's A dance to the music of time; title: Arcadia revisited: Evelyn Waugh's gentlemen; title: A pillar upholding nothing : nostalgia, Englishness and the English gentleman in Kazuo Ishiguro's The remains of the day; title: Regression and reaction : past realities and future possibilities.