The image of the English gentleman in twentieth-century literature : Englishness and nostalgia /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Berberich, Christine, 1969-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007]
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.
Online Access:	Table of contents only

Table of 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.