War, espionage, and masculinity in British fiction:
"War, Espionage, and Masculinity in British Fiction' explores the masculinities represented in British works spanning more than a century. Studies of Rudyard Kipling’s 'The Light That Failed' (1891) and Erskine Childer’s 'The Riddle of the Sands' (1903) investigate masc...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "War, Espionage, and Masculinity in British Fiction' explores the masculinities represented in British works spanning more than a century. Studies of Rudyard Kipling’s 'The Light That Failed' (1891) and Erskine Childer’s 'The Riddle of the Sands' (1903) investigate masculinities from before World War I, at the height of the British Empire. A discussion of R.C. Sherriff’s play 'Journey’s End' takes readers to the battlefields of World War I, where duty and the harsh realities of modern warfare require men to perform, perhaps to die, perhaps to be unmanned by shellshock. From there we see how Dorothy Sayers developed the character of Peter Wimsey as a model of masculinity, both strong and successful despite his own shellshock in the years between the world wars. Graham Greene’s The Heart of the Matter (1948) and The Quiet American (1955) show masculinities shaken and questioning their roles and their country’s after neither world war ended all wars and the Empire rapidly lost ground. Two chapters on 'The Innocent' (1990), Ian McEwan’s fictional account of a real collaboration between Great Britain and the United States to build a tunnel that would allow them to spy on the Soviet Union, dig deeply into the 1950’s Cold War to examine the fictional masculinity of the British protagonist and the real world and fictional masculinities projected by the countries involved. Explorations of Ian Fleming’s 'Casino Royale' (1953) and 'The Living Daylights' (1962) continue the Cold War theme. Discussion of the latter film shows a confident, infallible masculinity, optimistic at the prospect of glasnost and the potential end of Cold War hostilities. John le Carré’s 'The Night Manager' (1993) and its television adaptation take espionage past the Cold War. The final chapter on Ian McEwan’s 'Saturday' (2005) shows one man’s reaction to 9/11. -- publisher description |
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| spelling | War, espionage, and masculinity in British fiction editor Susan L. Austin Wilmington, Delaware Vernon Press 2023 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 185 Seiten) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Series in literary studies Chapter 1. Desire, deception, and the Dulcibella: courtship and romantic love in the spy novels of Childers, Fleming, and le Carre / Pierre Dumont -- Chapter 2. Kipling's modern chivalry: masculinity and war in The Light that Failed / Dennis S. Gouws -- Chapter 3. "Put up a good show": performing masculinity in the trenches in R. C. Sherriff's Journey's End / Elizabeth Carroll -- Chapter 4. Towards a new masculinity: Sayers, shellshock, and a Whimsical Imagination / Adrienne Major -- Chapter 5. War, espionage, and masculine anxiety in Graham Greene's The Heart of the Matter / Li Chen -- Chapter 6. Conquest, competition, and masculinity in Graham Greene's The Quiet American / Susan L. Austin -- Chapter 7. Covert innocence: the cold war, suspicion, and the failures of masculinity in Ian McEwan's The Innocent / Patrick Thomas Henry -- Chapter 8. "We're supposed to have a special relationship": cold war men and espionage narratives of Operation Stopwatch/Gold in Ian McEwan's The Innocent / Roxana Oltean -- Chapter 9. Masculinity in The Living Daylights: the story, the film, and a dream of man / Susan L. Austin -- Chapter 10. Fragile masculinities in The Night Manager: how "the worst man in the world" brings out the best / Dany Jacob -- Chapter 11. The man at the window: Ian McEwan's Saturday as a narrative of contemporary masculinity / Jonathan Readey "War, Espionage, and Masculinity in British Fiction' explores the masculinities represented in British works spanning more than a century. Studies of Rudyard Kipling’s 'The Light That Failed' (1891) and Erskine Childer’s 'The Riddle of the Sands' (1903) investigate masculinities from before World War I, at the height of the British Empire. A discussion of R.C. Sherriff’s play 'Journey’s End' takes readers to the battlefields of World War I, where duty and the harsh realities of modern warfare require men to perform, perhaps to die, perhaps to be unmanned by shellshock. From there we see how Dorothy Sayers developed the character of Peter Wimsey as a model of masculinity, both strong and successful despite his own shellshock in the years between the world wars. Graham Greene’s The Heart of the Matter (1948) and The Quiet American (1955) show masculinities shaken and questioning their roles and their country’s after neither world war ended all wars and the Empire rapidly lost ground. Two chapters on 'The Innocent' (1990), Ian McEwan’s fictional account of a real collaboration between Great Britain and the United States to build a tunnel that would allow them to spy on the Soviet Union, dig deeply into the 1950’s Cold War to examine the fictional masculinity of the British protagonist and the real world and fictional masculinities projected by the countries involved. Explorations of Ian Fleming’s 'Casino Royale' (1953) and 'The Living Daylights' (1962) continue the Cold War theme. Discussion of the latter film shows a confident, infallible masculinity, optimistic at the prospect of glasnost and the potential end of Cold War hostilities. John le Carré’s 'The Night Manager' (1993) and its television adaptation take espionage past the Cold War. The final chapter on Ian McEwan’s 'Saturday' (2005) shows one man’s reaction to 9/11. -- publisher description Geschichte 1891-2005 gnd rswk-swf Spionage Motiv (DE-588)4243882-2 gnd rswk-swf Männlichkeit Motiv (DE-588)4372433-4 gnd rswk-swf Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 gnd rswk-swf Krieg Motiv (DE-588)4136410-7 gnd rswk-swf Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 gnd rswk-swf Großbritannien (DE-588)4022153-2 gnd rswk-swf Childers, Erskine / Criticism and interpretation Fleming, Ian / Criticism and interpretation Le Carré, John / 1931-2020 / Criticism and interpretation Kipling, Rudyard / 1865-1936 / Criticism and interpretation Sherriff, R. C. / (Robert Cedric) / 1896-1975 / Criticism and interpretation Sayers, Dorothy L. / (Dorothy Leigh) / 1893-1957 / Criticism and interpretation Greene, Graham / 1904-1991 / Criticism and interpretation McEwan, Ian / Criticism and interpretation English fiction / 20th century / History and criticism English fiction / 19th century / History and criticism War in literature Masculinity in literature Espionage in literature (DE-588)4143413-4 Aufsatzsammlung gnd-content Großbritannien (DE-588)4022153-2 g Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 s Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 s Krieg Motiv (DE-588)4136410-7 s Spionage Motiv (DE-588)4243882-2 s Männlichkeit Motiv (DE-588)4372433-4 s Geschichte 1891-2005 z DE-604 Austin, Susan L. (DE-588)1246163446 edt Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 978-1-64889-507-4 |
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