The image of the English gentleman in twentieth-century literature [electronic resource] : Englishness and nostalgia / Christine Berberich.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.Description: viii, 207 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 820.9/3521 22
LOC classification:
  • PR888.G357 B47 2007eb
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Contents:
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.
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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.

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