Nation and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century British Novel maps the interrelations between literary production and public debates about citizenship that shaped twentieth-century Britain
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Nation and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century British Novel maps the interrelations between literary production and public debates about citizenship that shaped twentieth-century Britain
Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction On Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Britain; English Particularities, Universal Citizenship, and the Legacies of Liberalism; The Narratives of Citizenship; Transformations of Citizenship; Chapter 1 Democratic Friends in E.M. Forster's The Longest Journey and Howards End; Friendship, Citizenship, and Hellenism; From Filiation to Affiliation in The Longest Journey; Comradeship and Female Citizenship in Howards End
Chapter 2 Toward Social Citizenship in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. DallowayCollective Social Imaginaries; The Emerging Welfare State; Solidarity between Strangers; Chapter 3 Citizenship, Character, and World War II in Elizabeth Bowen's The Heat of the Day; Libertarianism and Civic Republicanism; Sex, Character, and Civic Virtue; National Citizens, Novelistic Characters, and Fictional Espionage; Totalitarianism and Social Democracy; Chapter 4 Authoring Citizenship in Sam Selvon and Buchi Emecheta's Immigrant Fictions; Authorship, Citizenship, and Possessive Individualism
Between Individual Authorship and Collective Responsibility in The Lonely LondonersA Portrait of the Artist as a Black Immigrant Woman in Second-Class Citizen; Chapter 5 Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses and the Politics of Extremity; The Temperate and the Tropical; The Limits of Liberal Tolerance; London's Burning; On Political Violence; The Future of Multicultural Citizenship in Britain; Epilogue Citizenship in an Age of Transnationalism in Monica Ali's In the Kitchen; Notes; Introduction; 1. Democratic Friends in E.M. Forster's The Longest Journey and Howards End
2. Toward Social Citizenship in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway3. Citizenship, Character, and World War II in Elizabeth Bowen's The Heat of the Day; 4. Authoring Citizenship in Sam Selvon and Buchi Emecheta's Immigrant Fictions; 5. Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses and the Politics of Extremity; Epilogue; Index
