The British Aristocracy in Popular Culture: Essays on 200 Years of Representations

ISBN-13: 9781476674872 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 277 str.

Stefania Michelucci; Ian Duncan; Luisa Villa

Spis treści

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Don Giovanni, the "Last Real Aristocrat"
• Château Désir and Beyond: The Young Disraeli and the Politics of ­Silver-Fork Fiction
• Throwing Down the Gauntlet to "Society": Charles Dickens and John Forster Challenge "Blood"
• A Seeming Anomaly: The British Aristocracy and the Novels of Anthony Trollope
• "Transparent Swindles" and Others: ­Nineteenth-Century American Views of the English Aristocracy
• Thomas Hardy: Class and Pedigree
• "Un pied sur chaque côté de la Manche": Jacques-Émile Blanche's Pictorial Representation of British Aristocracy
• "Hanging up ­looking-glasses at odd corners": The Multiple
• Portraits of Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873–1938)
• Capsized Classes: The Aristocracy and the Annihilation of History in D.H. Lawrence's Later Works
• "A twitch upon the thread": Memory, Tradition and Cultural Identity in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited
• Misfits' Portraits: Representations of English Aristocracy in World War I, Through the Interbellum to World War II
• Idealism, Farce and International Heterotopias: Aristocracy in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day
• Aristocratic Syntax: Interrogative and Relative Who and Whom in 19th and 20th Century Literature
• Narrative Rhetoric in Representing the British Aristocracy: Julian Fellowes and Peter Morgan
• Filmography
• Bibliography
• About the Contributors
• Index