Politics and history in William Golding
Subtitle: the world turned upside down
By: Paul Crawford.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press; University of Missouri
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Golding, William, 1911- -- Political and social views.; Golding, William, 1911- -- Knowledge -- History.; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.; Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.; Historical fiction, English -- History and criticism.; Political fiction, English -- History and criticism.
Description: "Politics and History in William Golding provides a much needed politicized and historicized reading of William Golding's novels as a counter to previous, universalizing criticism. Paul Crawford argues that an understanding of fantastic and carnivalesque modes in Golding's work is vital if we are to appreciate fully his interrogation of twentieth-century life." "The fantastic and carnivalesque are foundational to both the satirical and nonsatirical approaches that mark Golding's early and late fiction. No previous study has analyzed this structure that is so central to his work. Politics and History in William Golding examines this writer's work more fully than it has been studied within the convoluted context of the last half of the twentieth century. Crawford directly links Golding's various deployments of the fantastic and carnivalesque to historical, political, and social change."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-254) and index.