Image of the English Gentleman in Twentieth-Century Literature
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Author_Christine Berberich
British identity studies
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class and social hierarchy
Contemporary Societies
cultural nostalgia analysis
Darlington Hall
Edwardian Country House
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Fowler's Modern English Usage
Fowler’s Modern English Usage
French Lieutenant's Woman
French Lieutenant’s Woman
gentlemen
George Sherston
Good Life
Great Butler
Homoerotic Writing
Honour Trilogy
HSH.
ishiguro
kazuo
Kazuo Ishiguro
Knight Errant
MAA
masculinity in literature
mason
mitford
nancy
Nancy Mitford
national identity construction
Paul Pennyfeather
perfect
philip
Philip Mason
representations of British masculinity in fiction
sassoon
Sebastian Flyte
Shirley Robin Letwin
siegfried
Sir Felix Carbury
Swimming Pool Library
Term Gentleman
twentieth-century British novels
Uphill Climb
War Time
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754661269
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Dec 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Studies of the English gentleman have tended to focus mainly on the nineteenth century, encouraging the implicit assumption that this influential literary trope has less resonance for twentieth-century literature and culture. Christine Berberich challenges this notion by showing that the English gentleman has proven to be a remarkably adaptable and relevant ideal that continues to influence not only literature but other forms of representation, including the media and advertising industries. Focusing on Siegfried Sassoon, Anthony Powell, Evelyn Waugh and Kazuo Ishiguro, whose presentations of the gentlemanly ideal are analysed in their specific cultural, historical, and sociological contexts, Berberich pays particular attention to the role of nostalgia and its relationship to 'Englishness'. Though 'Englishness' and by extension the English gentleman continue to be linked to depictions of England as the green and pleasant land of imagined bygone days, Berberich counterbalances this perception by showing that the figure of the English gentleman is the medium through which these authors and many of their contemporaries critique the shifting mores of contemporary society. Twentieth-century depictions of the gentleman thus have much to tell us about rapidly changing conceptions of national, class, and gender identity.
Christine Berberich is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth, UK.
