The British Aristocracy in Popular Culture: Essays on 200 Years of Representations

Author:   Stefania Michelucci, ,  Ian Duncan ,  Luisa Villa
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
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Pages:   242
Publication Date:   30 May 2020
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Author:   Stefania Michelucci, ,  Ian Duncan ,  Luisa Villa
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
ISBN:  

9781476674872


ISBN 10:   1476674876
Pages:   242
Publication Date:   30 May 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
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"Acknowledgments Introduction Don Giovanni, the ""Last Real Aristocrat"" Château Désir and Beyond: The Young Disraeli and the Politics of ­Silver-Fork Fiction Throwing Down the Gauntlet to ""Society"": Charles Dickens and John Forster Challenge ""Blood"" A Seeming Anomaly: The British Aristocracy and the Novels of Anthony Trollope ""Transparent Swindles"" and Others: ­Nineteenth-Century American Views of the English Aristocracy Thomas Hardy: Class and Pedigree ""Un pied sur chaque côté de la Manche"": Jacques-Émile Blanche's Pictorial Representation of British Aristocracy ""Hanging up ­looking-glasses at odd corners"": The Multiple Portraits of Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873–1938) Capsized Classes: The Aristocracy and the Annihilation of History in D.H. Lawrence's Later Works ""A twitch upon the thread"": Memory, Tradition and Cultural Identity in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited Misfits' Portraits: Representations of English Aristocracy in World War I, Through the Interbellum to World War II Idealism, Farce and International Heterotopias: Aristocracy in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day Aristocratic Syntax: Interrogative and Relative Who and Whom in 19th and 20th Century Literature Narrative Rhetoric in Representing the British Aristocracy: Julian Fellowes and Peter Morgan Filmography Bibliography About the Contributors Index"

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The collection applies various research methodologies to literary, artistic, and film representations of the British nobility to examine the enduring symbolic role and place of the aristocracy in culture and history. ... These essays expand understanding of why these representations of British nobility matter--how they create and perpetuate a persistent 'modern imagery' of a historic aristocracy that many in the British and Anglophile world crave. ...recommended. --Choice


"""The collection applies various research methodologies to literary, artistic, and film representations of the British nobility to examine the enduring symbolic role and place of the aristocracy in culture and history. ... These essays expand understanding of why these representations of British nobility matter--how they create and perpetuate a persistent 'modern imagery' of a historic aristocracy that many in the British and Anglophile world crave. ...recommended.""--Choice"


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Stefania Michelucci is a full professor of English Studies at the University of Genoa, Italy. She is specialized in Modernism and the visual arts and on 20th century angloamericano poetry and fiction. She has been a visiting scholar and has lectured all over the world, including the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, South Africa and Japan. Ian Duncan is the Florence Green Bixby Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches the history of the novel, 19th-century British literature, and Scottish literature. Luisa Villa is a professor of English literature at the University of Genoa, Italy. She has published books in Italian on Henry James, George Eliot, ressentiment in late 19th century fiction, and on the representation of the British military campaigns in the Sudan.

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