Nation and citizenship in the twentieth-century British novel /

"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 readin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ho, Janice, 1980- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Subjects:	English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. National characteristics, English, in literature. Citizenship in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English fiction. 1900-1999 Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

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.