R. F. Delderfield's Novels as Cultural History : A Reader's Companion.
Title:
R. F. Delderfield's Novels as Cultural History : A Reader's Companion.
Author:
Lams, Victor J.
ISBN:
9781453905272
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (326 pages)
Contents:
Table of Contents -- Introduction 1 -- Chapter 1 Delderfield's Napoleonic Oeuvre 3 -- Chapter 2 The Avenue Novels: England As Neighborhood 89 -- Part I. The Dreaming Suburb 90 -- Part II. The Avenue Goes To War 137 -- Chapter 3 The Devonshire Trilogy 195 -- Part I. Long Summer's Day 196 -- Part II. Post Of Honour 225 -- Part III. The Green Gauntlet 262 -- Works Cited 303 -- Index 305.
Abstract:
This book begins with a survey of R. F. Delderfield's knowledge of Napoleonic history as revealed in his three Napoleonic-era novels. Two commentaries follow: the first on English attitudes and actions in a London suburb during the Interbellum (1918-1939) in his novels The Dreaming Suburb and The Avenue Goes to War, and the second on his Craddock trilogy, set in Devonshire, dramatizing the English experience from the Boer War until the late 1960s.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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