Politics and the British novel in the 1970s / J. Russell Perkin.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Perkin, J. Russell (James Russell), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Politics and literature.
• Political fiction, English--History and criticism.
• English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 pages)

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Québec province ; Kingston, Ontario ; London, England ; Chicago, Illinois : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]

Summary:

In Politics and the British Novel in the 1970s Russell Perkin looks at social novels by John Fowles and Margaret Drabble, the Cold War thrillers of John le Carré, Richard Adams's best-selling fable Watership Down, the popular campus novels of Malcolm Bradbury and David Lodge, Doris Lessing's dystopian visions, and V.S. Naipaul's explorations of post-colonial displacement. Many of these highly regarded works sold in large numbers and have enjoyed enduring success - a testament to the power of the political novel to explain a nation to itself.

Contents:

• Cover
• Politics and the British Novel in the1970s
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Chronology
• Introduction
• 1 The Fiction of Discontent: Margaret Drabble's The Ice Age and John Fowles's Daniel Martin
• 2 "England Made Me": John le Carré's Karla Trilogy
• 3 The Green World of Richard Adams
• 4 The Campus Novels of Malcolm Bradbury and David Lodge: Politics in a Small World
• 5 Doris Lessing's Feminist Apocalyptic
• 6 Camels on the Embankment: V.S. Naipaul and the Globalization of the Novel
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-311) and index.
• Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-2280-0763-1

OCLC:

1227784868