The Centre of Things: Political Fiction in Britain from Disraeli to the Present

ISBN-13: 9780044455929 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 256 str.

Christopher T. Harvie

Opis

This is an excellent survey of the British political novel.' - Contemporary Review

Recenzje

`... an extraordinarily busy, exfoliating book, bursting its banks with plot summaries and potted historical explanations ... very readable indeed.' - Valentine Cunningham, New Statesman and Society

`This is an excellent survey of the British political novel.' - Contemporary Review

`Students of politics as well as literature will find it very stimulating' - The Scotsman Weekend

Spis treści

Preface The Conversation of People who Counted The Literature of Crisis The Triumph of Disraeli Landscape with Candidates The Golden Age: the Mid-Victorian Political Novel Revolutionaries and Elitists, 1886-1914 In Time of Strife, 1914-26 Class? Nation? Commonwealth? The Fall and Rise of British Political Fiction Index

O autorze

Christopher Harvie