Maggie Gee : Writing the Condition-of-England Novel.
Başlık:
Maggie Gee : Writing the Condition-of-England Novel.
Yazar:
Kiliç, Mine Özyurt.
ISBN:
9781441100870
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Basım Bilgisi:
1st ed.
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (197 pages)
Seri:
Continuum Literary Studies
İçerik:
Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1 Introduction -- Contextualizing Maggie Gee's Fiction -- Condition-of-England novel -- Modernists and anti-modernist backlash -- The campus novel: A variant of the condition-of-England novel -- Maggie Gee writing her condition-of-England novel -- Part two -- Major works -- Part three -- Author interview -- Part 2 Major Works -- 1 Author Flinging Herself from the Ivory Tower: Dying, In Other Words (1981) -- 2 Of the Nuclear Family and the Hibakusha: The Burning Book (1983) -- 3 Telescopic View of England, England: Light Years (1985) -- 4 Hard Times: Grace (1988) and Where Are the Snows (1991) -- 'Meddling with the very building-blocks of the universe.' Grace -- 'What a waste of planet, what a waste of life!': Where Are the Snows -- Note -- 5 Are Such Things Done on Albion's Shore?: Lost Children (1994) -- Notes -- 6 Environmental Crisis, from Fact to Fiction: The Ice People (1998) and The Flood (2004) -- 'Of the best of days, and the end of days': The Ice People -- From Noah's ark to Blair's helicopters: Dystopian future in Maggie Gee's The Flood -- Notes -- 7 Of the Two Nations: The White Family (2002) -- 8 Authorship in a Globalized World: My Cleaner (2005) and My Driver (2009) -- Notes -- Part 3 Author Interview -- 9 Interview with Maggie Gee: Mine Özyurt Kılıç, 17 April 2010, İstanbul -- Bibliography -- Contextualizing Maggie Gee's Fiction -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Chapter 1: Author Flinging Herself from the Ivory Tower: Dying, In Other Words (1981) -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Chapter 2: Of the Nuclear Family and the Hibakusha: The Burning Book (1983) -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Chapter 3: Telescopic View of England, England: Light Years (1985) -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources.
Chapter 4: Hard Times: Grace (1988) and Where Are the Snows (1991) -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Chapter 5: Are Such Things Done on Albion's Shore?: Lost Children (1994) -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Chapter 6: Environmental Crisis, from Fact to Fiction: The Ice People (1998) and The Flood (2004) -- Primary sources -- Primary sources -- Chapter 7: Of the Two Nations: The White Family (2002) -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Chapter 8: Authorship in a Globalized World: My Cleaner (2005) and My Driver (2009) -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Index.
Özet:
The first female Chair of the Royal Society of Literature and translated into thirteen languages, Maggie Gee is writing the Victorian condition-of-England novel for 21st-century Britain. In the first critical study of Gee's work, Mine Ãzyurt Kilià identifies the specific social problems her novels address and explains the social consciousness similarities Gee shares with the Victorians. Analyzing how Gee adjusts the condition-of-England novel to reflect contemporary Britain enables Ãzyurt Kilià to reveal the accuracy of Gee's rich portraits of Britain. She focuses on Gee's ability to cut across the boundaries of race, class and gender, mix voices from the margin with the majority and challenge and change the idea of the mainstream. As an active, self-conscious and critical participant in the literary world, Gee paints a panoramic view of society. Her critiques of class, race and the world of publishing, allow Ãzyurt Kilià to cover a wide range of topics and detail how English fiction shapes and influences, and is shaped and influenced by, the contemporary literary market.
Notlar:
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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