1st Edition
The Centre of Things Political Fiction in Britain from Disraeli to the Present
By Christopher Harvie
Copyright 1991
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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`This is an excellent survey of the British political novel.' - Contemporary Review
Preface The Conversation of People who Counted The Literature of Crisis The Triumph of Disraeli Landscape with Candidates The Golden Age: the Mid-Victorian Political Novel Revolutionaries and Elitists, 1886-1914 In Time of Strife, 1914-26 Class? Nation? Commonwealth? The Fall and Rise of British Political Fiction Index
Biography
Christopher Harvie
`... an extraordinarily busy, exfoliating book, bursting its banks with plot summaries and potted historical explanations ... very readable indeed.' - Valentine Cunningham, New Statesman and Society
`This is an excellent survey of the British political novel.' - Contemporary Review
`Students of politics as well as literature will find it very stimulating' - The Scotsman Weekend