HO Janice, Nation and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century British Novel

Nation and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century British Novel addresses the ways modern novels represent or imagine new forms of citizenship and posits that literature can foresee major historical or political changes, as well as inscribe national developments at the heart of characterisation and n...

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Gepubliceerd in:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ebc,
Hoofdauteur: Mellet, Laurent
Formaat: Article ou chapitre numérique
Taal:Anglais
Gepubliceerd in: Études britanniques contemporaines 2018
Online toegang:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Samenvatting:Nation and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century British Novel addresses the ways modern novels represent or imagine new forms of citizenship and posits that literature can foresee major historical or political changes, as well as inscribe national developments at the heart of characterisation and narrative strategies. By looking at novels by E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, Sam Selvon, Buchi Emecheta and Salman Rushdie, Janice Ho shows that British literature interrogates phil...