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Author:   Jonathan Bolton
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.60cm
ISBN:  

9781526148469

ISBN 10:   1526148463
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   10 December 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Introduction: the Blunt Affair and its impact on literature, television and film in the 1980s 1 Tradition and treason in Dennis Potter’s Blade on the Feather 2 School for scandal: Julian Mitchell’s Another Country 3 Allegories of prudence: Alan Bennett’s Single Spies 4 Tender comrades: friendship and treason in Robin Chapman’s One of Us and Blunt — The Fourth Man 5 ‘Men of the middle ground’: John le Carré’s A Perfect Spy and the treachery of Kim Philby 6 The 'unsavoury' world of espionage: Tom Stoppard’s The Dog It Was That Died 7 Secrecy, the State and the citizen: Hugh Whitemore’s Pack of Lies, Concealed Enemies and Breaking the Code 8 Gentlemen’s agreement: Scandal, the Profumo Affair and the end of the Cold War Conclusion: ‘getting at the darkness’: poststructuralism and naturalism in literature, television and film in the 1980s Index -- .

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Jonathan Bolton is Hollifield Professor of English Literature at Auburn University

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