Nation and citizenship in the twentieth-century British novel Ho, Janice 1980- creator author. text bibliography Criticism, interpretation, etc. nyu 2015 monographic eng print xi, 229 pages ; 24 cm "Nation and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century British Novel charts how novelists imagined changing forms of citizenship in twentieth-century Britain. This study offers a new way of understanding the constitution of the nation-state in terms of the concept of citizenship. Through close readings, it reveals how major authors such as E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, Sam Selvon, Buchi Emecheta, Salman Rushdie, and Monica Ali presented political struggles over citizenship during key historical moments: the advent of democracy, the emancipation of women, the rise of social-welfare provision, the institution of the security state during World War II, and the emergence of multicultural citizenship during postwar immigration. This serves as the first full-length monograph to map the interrelations between literary production and public debates about citizenship that shaped Britain in the twentieth century"-- Introduction: On citizenship in twentieth-century Britain -- 1. Democratic friends in E.M. Forster's The Longest journey and Howards End -- 2. Toward social citizenship in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway -- 3. Citizenship, character, and the Second World War in Elizabeth Bowen's The heat of the day -- 4. Authoring citizenship in Sam Selvon's and Buchi Emecheta's immigrant fictions -- 5. Salman Rushdie's The Satanic verses and the politics of extremity -- Epilogue: Citizenship in an age of transnationalism in Monica Ali's In the kitchen. Janice Ho, University of Colorado. Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-224) and index. e-uk-en English fiction 20th century History and criticism National characteristics, English, in literature Citizenship in literature LITERARY CRITICISM European English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Citizenship in literature English fiction National characteristics, English, in literature 1900-1999 fast PR830.N3557 H6 2015 823/.91093552 LIT004120 9781107084469 1107084466 9781107446397 1107446392 2014032389 DLC 140826 20191018142024.0 in00004173205 eng