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Muñoz-Valdivieso, Sofia. "Slavery fiction in Britain." Journal of European Studies 50, no. 2 (2020): 193–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0047244120918481.

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This article analyses significant examples of slavery fiction published in Britain by writers who have family links to Africa and the Caribbean. As children of immigrants who had come to Britain after World War II, Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen, Fred D’Aguiar, Andrea Levy and Bernardine Evaristo shared the uncertainties of coming of age in a society that offered no space for their identities as individuals with roots in other continents. This article reviews some of their fictions and considers them as a group in their re-creation of British involvement in the slave trade and slavery. They re

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Chambers, Claire. "Banglaphone Fiction:." Crossings: A Journal of English Studies 6 (December 1, 2015): 20–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.59817/cjes.v6i.182.

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Around the time the Raj was disintegrating, Bengalis, many of them from Sylhet, were coming to Britain in large numbers. Settling in areas such as London’s Spitalfields, these Sylhetis pioneered Britain’s emerging curry restaurant trade, labored for long hours and with few rights in the garment industry, and worked as mechanics. Sylhetis’ inestimable contribution to the fabric of British life is recognized, for example, in their association with Brick Lane, a popular road of curry houses in East London. However, too often their contribution to literature is reduced to one novel, Brick Lane, Mo

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English, James F. "Consuming Fictions: The Booker Prize and Fiction in Britain Today." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 45, no. 2 (1999): 529–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1999.0035.

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Gibson, Mel. "‘… sure to delight every ballet fan’: Consuming ballet culture through girls’ periodical Girl, 1952–60." Film, Fashion & Consumption 12, no. 1 (2023): 11–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ffc_00050_1.

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This article focuses on the ways that ballet was presented for girl readers to consume in Girl (Hulton Press, 1952–64). Girl was a weekly publication, part of girls’ periodical culture in Britain, which was thriving in the 1950s and 1960s. The ballet content it contained was one aspect of the growing British cultural engagement with ballet in the mid-twentieth century. This broader engagement included watching films and attending performances. In addition, for younger participants, especially girls, this may have been accompanied by participation in ballet classes and reading ballet fiction an

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King, Bruce, and A. Robert Lee. "Other Britain, Other British: Contemporary Multicultural Fiction." World Literature Today 71, no. 1 (1997): 161. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40152674.

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Jones, Matthew. "1950s science fiction cinema's depersonalisation narratives in Britain." Science Fiction Film & Television 7, no. 1 (2014): 31–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/sfftv.2014.2.

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Hauthal, Janine. "Rewriting ‘white’ genres in search of Afro-European identities." English Text Construction 10, no. 1 (2017): 37–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/etc.10.1.03hau.

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Presuming that both travel and crime fiction can be described as traditionally ‘white’ genres, this article investigates how contemporary Black British authors appropriate these genres. Focusing on Mike Phillips’s A Shadow of Myself and Bernardine Evaristo’s Soul Tourists, the article examines how the two novels redeem and suspend the traditional racial and national coding of travel writing and crime fiction by rehabilitating black mixed-race characters. In both novels, moreover, the rethinking of traditional popular genres coincides with, and is partly enabled by, a transnational shift in foc

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Markova, Ekaterina A. "British and American Reception of The Red Laugh by Leonid Andreev." RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism 27, no. 2 (2022): 299–322. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2312-9220-2022-27-2-299-322.

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The article deals with the English-language reception of The Red Laugh , one of the most well-known of Leonid Andreev’s texts both in Russia and abroad. As the examples of this reception, a number of newspaper and magazine publications, memoirs, translators’ prefaces, and works of fiction are analyzed. There exist several waves of interest in Andreev’s story. They could be explained either by the appearance of new translations or by significant historic events of the time (the Russian Revolution, World Wars I and II). Andreev’s critics in Britain and America place his story in a variety of con

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Ludtke, Laura Elizabeth. "Reading (in) Graham Greene's The Ministry of Fear (1943)." Novel: A Forum on Fiction 57, no. 1 (2024): 44–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00295132-11052350.

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Abstract This essay offers a transgeneric reading of Graham Greene's 1943 novel The Ministry of Fear, first tracing the emergence of spy fiction from invasion fiction at the end of the nineteenth century and then establishing William Le Queux's influence on the culture of espionage in Britain as well as in British spy fiction. Following on from this genealogy of genre, it interrogates the novel's protagonist's claim that “[t]he world has been remade by William Le Queux” in the context of the dual histories of espionage in Britain and the spy in British fiction, while attending to the novel's o

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Stewart, Victoria. "True-Crime Narratives and Detective Fiction in Interwar Britain." Clues: A Journal of Detection 29, no. 2 (2011): 16–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.3172/clu.29.2.16.

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Sergeant, David. "Changes in Kipling's Fiction Upon His Return to Britain." English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 52, no. 2 (2009): 144–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.2487/elt.52.2(2009)0035.

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Mortimer, Claire. "Science Fiction Cinema and 1950s Britain: Recontextualizing Cultural Anxiety." Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 39, no. 1 (2019): 202–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2018.1524555.

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Atwood, Margaret. "The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake in Context." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 119, no. 3 (2004): 513–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/003081204x20578.

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I'm not a science fiction expert. Nor am i an academic, although i used to be one, sort of. Although I'm a writer, I'm not primarily a writer of science fiction. In this genre I'm a dilettante and a dabbler, an amateur—which last word, rightly translated, means “lover.” I got into hot water recently on a radio talk show in Britain: the radio person said she'd just been to a sci-fi conference there, and some people were really, really mad at me. Why? said I, mystified. For being mean to science fiction, said she. In what way had I been mean? I asked. For saying you didn't write it, she replied.

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Medina Calzada, Sara. "Romantic Strife: The First Carlist War (1833–1840) in British Fiction." International Journal of English Studies 22, no. 2 (2022): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/ijes.515151.

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British volunteers fought on both sides of the First Carlist War (1833–1840), the dynastic struggle between the liberal factions that championed Isabella II and the reactionary forces that supported Don Carlos’s claim to the Spanish throne. Despite British intervention, the conflict did not arouse as much interest in Britain as the Peninsular War (1808–1814), but it served as the setting for several English literary works that reconstructed it from different perspectives. These fictional texts include George Ryder’s Los Arcos (1845), Frederick Hardman’s The Student of Salamanca (1845–1846), an

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HILLIARD, CHRISTOPHER. "POPULAR READING AND SOCIAL INVESTIGATION IN BRITAIN, 1850s–1940s." Historical Journal 57, no. 1 (2014): 247–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x13000332.

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ABSTRACT‘What do the masses read?’ After popular literacy and an urban market for mass culture became conspicuous in Britain in the middle of the nineteenth century, dozens of literary figures and social researchers took it upon themselves to answer this question. Middle-class inquirers sought in newsagents' wares a vicarious connection with the culture and values of the readers of popular fiction. Many of these investigators, from Wilkie Collins in the 1850s to George Orwell in the 1930s, practised a form of literary criticism that doubled as social criticism. Other students of popular readin

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Galván, Fernando. "Crossing islands: the Caribbean vs. Britain in Caryl Phillips's fiction." Alfinge. Revista de Filología 9 (January 1, 1997): 159. http://dx.doi.org/10.21071/arf.v9i.7161.

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McClellan, Ann K. "Slashing university education: Women’s academic crime fiction in Thatcher’s Britain." Literature & History 25, no. 2 (2016): 167–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306197316667859.

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Nastali, Dan. "Arthur Without Fantasy: Dark Age Britain in Recent Historical Fiction." Arthuriana 9, no. 1 (1999): 5–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/art.1999.0041.

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King, Barnaby. "Landscapes of Fact and Fiction: Asian Theatre Arts in Britain." New Theatre Quarterly 16, no. 1 (2000): 26–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00013439.

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In the first of two essays which use academic discourses of cultural exchange to examine the intra-cultural situation in contemporary British society, Barnaby King analyzes the relationship between Black arts and mainstream arts on both a professional and community level, focusing on particular examples of practice in the Leeds and Kirklees region in which he lives and works. This first essay looks specifically at the Asian situation, reviewing the history of Arts Council policy on ethnic minority arts, and analyzing how this has shaped – and is reflected in – current practice. In the context

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Coulson, John, and Nigel Odin. "Continental Great Spotted Woodpeckers in mainland Britain ‐ fact or fiction?" Ringing & Migration 23, no. 4 (2007): 217–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03078698.2007.9674367.

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Paul, Ronald. "Imperial Nostalgia: Victorian Values, History and Teenage Fiction in Britain." Moderna Språk 102, no. 1 (2008): 3–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.58221/mosp.v102i1.8521.

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Liu, Yuhuan. "Mental Writing and Mental Health and Cultural Identity in Doris Lessing’s Science Fiction." Journal of Environmental and Public Health 2022 (August 27, 2022): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/2215829.

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As one of the most outstanding female writers in post-war Britain, Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, has a strong spirit of the times in her works. In order to further understand the characteristics and spirit of the times in Doris Lessing’s novels, Doris Lessing’s science fiction is taken as the research object in this study, through in-depth research on novel storytelling, philosophical psychology, thematic forms, etc., from the perspective of emotional psychology model, to deeply analyze the characteristics of psychological writing, mental health, and cultural identit

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Mattana, Alessio. "The Voice of the Non-Human: Scientific Knowledge, It-Narratives and Fiction in the Long Eighteenth Century." ENTHYMEMA, no. 34 (March 2, 2024): 70–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.54103/2037-2426/20781.

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This article examines the connection between early scientific ideas and It-Narratives in Britain over the long eighteenth century. A set of It-Narratives - fictional texts narrated by, or centred on, non-human entities like things or animals - will be read against the attempt to detect the voice of natural things by a number of early-modern experimental and natural philosophers. It will be argued that, although causal links are hard to prove, there is a degree of epistemic vicinity between these early scientific ideas and It-Narratives. In particular, it will be shown how in both disciplines f

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Morrison, Jago, and Alan Burton. "Secrets, leaks and the novel. Writers, British intelligence and the public sphere after World War Two." Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 48, no. 1 (2023): 71–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.24053/aaa-2023-0004.

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This article makes a pioneering effort to explore the relationship between spy fiction, intelligence and the public sphere in Britain after World War Two. The secret British achievements of code-breaking, atomic science and deception in the World War of 1939–45 were outstanding. Similarly, the British contribution to spy fiction in the twentieth century has been seen as exceptional. However, the complex interconnections between the history and fictions of intelligence in the post-war decades have never been closely examined. This is a period during which the British state aggressively sought t

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Foster, Jonathan. "The Literariness of Red Tape: Civil Service Periodical Fiction in Early-Twentieth-Century Britain." Administory 8, no. 1 (2023): 159–74. https://doi.org/10.2478/adhi-2023-0006.

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Abstract This article examines the literary dimension of early-twentieth-century British civil service periodical culture, focusing on the trade union journal »Red Tape: A Civil Service Magazine«, founded in 1911. The article shows that literary sketches featured in »Red Tape« during its first years in existence not only highlighted the difficult working conditions of civil service clerks but also addressed complex professional identity issues and promoted collegiality amongst civil servants. By investigating the ways in which »Red Tape« fiction served as an exploratory form of corporate self-

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Γκότση, Γεωργία. "Elizabeth Mayhew Edmonds: Greek prose fiction in English dress." Σύγκριση 25 (May 16, 2016): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/comparison.9064.

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Elizabeth Mayhew Edmonds (1823-1907) played a significant role in the mediation of Modern Greek literature and culture in late nineteenth-century Britain, with her translations forming a vital aspect of her activity as a cultural broker. Focusing on Edmond’s transmission of late nineteenth-century Greek prose fiction, the article discusses her translation practices in the contemporary contexts of the publishing domain and the marketplace as well as of her effort to acquire authority in the literary field. Albeit impressive for a woman who was an autodidact in Modern Greek, the narrow scope of

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Jolly, Roslyn. "PIRACY, SLAVERY, AND THE IMAGINATION OF EMPIRE IN STEVENSON's PACIFIC FICTION." Victorian Literature and Culture 35, no. 1 (2007): 157–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150307051467.

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OFFICIALLY, BRITAIN WAS a reluctant coloniser in the Pacific. Unwilling to take on the expense and responsibility of colonial administration, or to interfere with the imperial ambitions of other European powers in the region, successive British governments in the nineteenth century turned down offers of protectorates and other opportunities to colonize Pacific lands. But the energies and ambitions of individual British subjects were not similarly constrained, and the many who went to the Pacific to evangelize, to plant, and to trade established a strong unofficial British presence in the regio

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Kirkby, Nicola. "The Channel Railway: Reverberations of a Fictional Line and Thomas Hardy’s A Laodicean (1881)." Journal of Victorian Culture 25, no. 3 (2020): 393–407. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcz062.

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Abstract This article couples debates about building a Channel Railway between Britain and France in the 1880s with Thomas Hardy’s novel, A Laodicean (1881), to investigate how fiction interrogated the material and imagined limits of British railway infrastructure. By examining ‘reverberation’, that is, the unintended and noisy oscillation of the tracks, it teases out subtle yet significant links between technology, interpretation, and control that underpin Hardy’s novel, and the Channel Railway project more broadly. In doing so, it argues that imaginative writing provided a testing ground for

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Nakatsuma, Yui. "Japanese Neo-Victorian Fictions: Looking Back to the Victorian Age from Japan." Neo-Victorian Studies 11, no. 2 (2019): 18–39. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2628424.

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Japan has seen an expansion not only in Japanese neo-Victorian anime and manga but also in novels that dramatise Victorian images by rereading late nineteenth-century London through the lens of modern Japan. Through an examination of three Japanese detective and gothic horror fictions set in Victorian London, Futaro Yamada’s ‘A Yellow Lodger’ (1953),  Soji Shimada’s <em>Soseki and </em><em>A</em><em> Case of Mummies </em><em>in</em><em> London</em> (1984), and Ryu Togo’s <em>The Adventure</em><em>s</em><em> of Kumagusu </em>(2013), this article explores how a

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WOIAK, JOANNE. "Designing a Brave New World: Eugenics, Politics, and Fiction." Public Historian 29, no. 3 (2007): 105–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/tph.2007.29.3.105.

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Aldous Huxley composed Brave New World in the context of the Depression and the eugenics movement in Britain. Today his novel is best known as satirical and predictive, but an additional interpretation emerges from Huxley's nonfiction writings in which the liberal humanist expressed some surprising opinions about eugenics, citizenship, and meritocracy. He felt that his role as an artist and public intellectual was to formulate an evolving outlook on urgent social, scientific, and moral issues. His brave new world can therefore be understood as a serious design for social reform, as well as a c

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Burton, Antoinette. "Quartet in Autumn and the Meaning of Barbara Pym." Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques 47, no. 2 (2021): 36–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/hrrh.2021.470204.

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Barbara Pym’s fiction has been viewed as an anthropological approach to the social mores of postwar Britain. In this article, I use one of her last novels, Quartet in Autumn, to sharpen that reading to think through how Pym articulated an aesthetics of decline by trumpeting the dying world of the White English spinster. Quartet fictionalizes the agony of what Ramon Soto-Crespo calls “decapitalized Whiteness,” that is, where economic loss and a sense of racial disenfranchisement go hand in hand. The transatlantic desire it satisfied for a world that was lost yet redeemable through good old-fash

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Burton, Antoinette. "Quartet in Autumn and the Meaning of Barbara Pym." Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques 47, no. 2 (2021): 36–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/hrrh.2020.470204.

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Abstract Barbara Pym's fiction has been viewed as an anthropological approach to the social mores of postwar Britain. In this article, I use one of her last novels, Quartet in Autumn, to sharpen that reading to think through how Pym articulated an aesthetics of decline by trumpeting the dying world of the White English spinster. Quartet fictionalizes the agony of what Ramon Soto-Crespo calls “decapitalized Whiteness,” that is, where economic loss and a sense of racial disenfranchisement go hand in hand. The transatlantic desire it satisfied for a world that was lost yet redeemable through good

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Richards, Jeffrey, and Kimberley Reynolds. "Girls Only? Gender and Popular Children's Fiction in Britain, 1880-1910." History of Education Quarterly 31, no. 1 (1991): 137. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/368809.

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Sayer, Karen. "Girls only? gender and popular children's fiction in britain, 1880-1910." Women's History Review 2, no. 3 (1993): 421–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09612029300200074.

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Stevenson, Randall. "No Experiments Please, We're British: Postmodernism and Contemporary Fiction in Britain." Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies 11 (December 31, 1990): 123–42. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.199011833.

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Fenton-Hathaway, Anna. "GASKELL'S DETOURS: HOWMARY BARTON,RUTH, ANDCRANFORDREDEFINED “REDUNDANCY”." Victorian Literature and Culture 42, no. 2 (2014): 235–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150313000430.

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When the 1851 census reported an“excess” of some half-million women in Britain, feminists and anti-feminists quickly took to the press to debate the implications of the demographic imbalance. Yet Victorian novelists also wishing to convey and alter the “Condition of England” experienced something of a quandary: How should fiction respond to news of the imbalance, and what options could be suggested for resolving it?

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Greig, Adelaide. "Buried giants, hot memories: Kazuo Ishiguro's misty vision of post-arthurian britain." Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association 19, no. 2 (2023): 143–69. https://doi.org/10.35253/jaema.2023.2.2.

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In his 2015 novel, The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro uses an early medieval setting; the action begins in the decades after King Arthur’s death and centres around a deep grudge between the resident Britons and encroaching Saxons. The landscape of Ishiguro’s post-Arthurian Britain is vague and featureless, an intentional choice by the author for presenting an exploration of societal conflict and cultural memory that is untethered to contemporary politics or recently remembered history. This article argues that Ishiguro’s perception of early medieval Britain is a product of the same processes of

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Mehedinți, Mihaela. "Great Britain and the United States of America as alterity figures for Romanians in the modern epoch: Ethno-cultural images and social representations." Romanian Journal for Baltic and Nordic Studies 14, no. 1 (2022): 99–123. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/rjbns-2022-0006.

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Abstract The main characteristics of any given social group are defined through comparisons with members of other communities and result from a complex interplay. Identity and alterity are thus constructed simultaneously and interdependently in accordance with group representations emerging from various sources: direct contact through travelling, mere legends or more verifiable accounts, scientific or fictional works, press articles tackling diverse topics, school textbooks, almanacs, etc. The British and the Americans were not identified as the most noteworthy alterity figures by the Romanian

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Reeves, Nancee. "EUTHANASIA AND (D)EVOLUTION IN SPECULATIVE FICTION." Victorian Literature and Culture 45, no. 1 (2017): 95–117. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150316000450.

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In the latter part of thenineteenth century future or speculative fiction became big business in Britain. It was a safe haven for invasion narratives, for socialist paradises or hells, for worlds ruled by benevolent machines, or worlds ruined by mechanical dependence. Themes and plots were varied, but they always reflected some facet of contemporary society. The future was not a bubble, untouched by time or trouble, but a field of battle, where ideas could be tested and philosophies given a test drive. The future was a place where the mistakes or triumphs of today dictated the course of human

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Bhat, Sami Ullah. "Indian English Fiction: Seeding to Efflorescence." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 9, no. 2 (2024): 195–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.92.28.

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Indian English literature began as an interesting by-product of an eventful encounter in the late eighteenth century between a vigorous and enterprising Britain and a stagnant and chaotic India. As a result of this encounter as F.W. Bain puts it ‘India a withered trunk… suddenly shot out with foreign foliage’. The first problem that confronts the historian of Indian English literature is to define its nature. The question has been made rather complicated owing to two factors: first this body of writing has, from time to time, been designated variously as ‘Indo-Anglian literature’, ‘Indian Writ

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Campbell Ross, Ian. "‘Damn these printers … By heaven, I'll cut Hoey's throat’: The History of Mr. Charles Fitzgerald and Miss Sarah Stapleton (1770), a Catholic Novel in Eighteenth-Century Ireland." Irish University Review 48, no. 2 (2018): 250–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/iur.2018.0353.

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The History of Mr Charles Fitzgerald and Miss Sarah Stapleton (Dublin, 1770) is a satirical marriage-plot novel, published by the Roman Catholic bookseller James Hoey Junior. The essay argues that the anonymous author was himself a Roman Catholic, whose work mischievously interrogates the place of English-language prose fiction in Ireland during the third-quarter of the eighteenth century. By so doing, the fiction illuminates the issue, so far neglected by Irish book historians, of how the growing middle-class Roman Catholic readership might have read the increasingly popular ‘new species of w

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Priya, G., P. Sujatha, and R. Sumathi. "The Mystery in The Historical Novel of Zadie Smith “The Fraud”." Shanlax International Journal of Arts, Science and Humanities 12, S1-Apr (2025): 137–40. https://doi.org/10.34293/sijash.v12is1-apr.8962.

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Zadie smith, British writer of fiction, non-fiction and plays, who has been periodically elaborated with remarkable wit, originality, intelligence, humor, and sheer energy of her generation than anyone by the scenes with a tremendous talent, is fashioned this historical novel the fraud, which is so dazzling about the myth and reality, Jamaica and Britain, honesty and dishonesty, and the enigma of individuals. It is focused on political populism that needs to be noticed for today’s day to day life. That’s what part of Smith’s thinking, given the level of cultural disruption in 19th century Engl

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Ellmann, Maud. "‘Vaccies Go Home!’: Evacuation, Psychoanalysis and Fiction in World War II Britain." Oxford Literary Review 38, no. 2 (2016): 240–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/olr.2016.0194.

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On September 1 1939 the British government launched a program ominously codenamed Operation Pied Piper, whereby thousands of children were evacuated from the cities to the countryside. This operation brought class conflict into the foreground, laying bare the drastic inequalities of British society, but also provided the foundations for the development of child psychoanalysis. This essay examines the impact of the evacuation crisis on psychoanalytic theories of the child, comparing these to the depiction of children in wartime fiction.

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Timlin, Carrie. "“The Workers Must Strive if the Butterflies Must Live”: Ethel Mannin’s Love’s Winnowing , the Socialist Romance Novel, and British Working-Class Women." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 43, no. 2 (2024): 197–217. https://doi.org/10.1353/tsw.2024.a952300.

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ABSTRACT: With rare exceptions, studies on author and activist Ethel Mannin have focused on her political non-fiction despite a broad consensus that many of her novels and short stories were vehicles for Socialist ideology. Her novelette “Love’s Winnowing” is a seminal example of how Socialist authors, and Mannin in particular, subverted the romance to political ends. Blurring the line between cultural commentary and popular fiction, Mannin’s nuanced integration of the experiences of working-class women in the story provides a window into the lives and concerns of its target audience, the conn

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Boccardi, Mariadele. "Reconstruction Fiction: Housing and Realist Literature in Postwar Britain by Paula Derdiger." Modern Language Review 117, no. 4 (2022): 711–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2022.0136.

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Bundock, Chris. ":Romantic Pasts: History, Fiction and Feeling in Britain, 1790–1850." Wordsworth Circle 55, no. 3 (2024): 305–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/732632.

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Stevens, Anne H. "Forging Literary History: Historical Fiction and Literary Forgery in Eighteenth-Century Britain." Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture 37, no. 1 (2008): 217–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sec.0.0024.

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Cornick, Martyn. "Representations of Britain and British Colonialism in French Adventure Fiction, 1870–1914." French Cultural Studies 17, no. 2 (2006): 137–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957155806064438.

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Recent scholarship has rediscovered the plural manifestations of a colonial culture in France, emerging after 1870 and reaching its apogee in the early 1930s. The period between 1870 and 1914, when France was undergoing rapid modernisation and was fully engaged in the process of consolidating its distinct national identity, constitutes the richest period for the impregnation of French society by this culture. This article reveals how images of British colonialism contrasted with representations of French colonial practice across a number of examples of popular adventure novels written between

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Arnold-Forster, Agnes. "Racing Pulses: Gender, Professionalism and Health Care in Medical Romance Fiction." History Workshop Journal 91, no. 1 (2021): 157–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbab011.

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Abstract Following the foundation of the NHS in 1948, a new sub-genre of romantic fiction emerged: ‘Doctor–Nurse’ romances, usually involving romance between a male doctor and a female nurse, were set in NHS hospitals. Drawing on the Mills & Boon archive and the novels themselves, this article explores representations of the health service and notions of gendered healthcare professionalism in postwar Britain. I argue that rather than presenting ‘retrograde’ and ‘limited’ views of women’s lives, medical Mills & Boon novels frequently put forward nuanced versions of womanhood, profession

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Bolton, Sophie. "The Collins Crime Club." Logos 31, no. 4 (2021): 69–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18784712-03104005.

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Abstract The interwar years in Britain are regularly referred to by historians and literary commentators as the Golden Age of detective fiction (c. 1920–1940). This article focuses on the Collins imprint the Crime Club, established in 1930. It assesses the significance of this imprint in the context of the Golden Age, with a focus on its commercial animus, drawing on theories about class-based markets and the commercialization of print culture. The article examines the marketing methods used by the Crime Club to promote its titles, such as newsletters and card games, and takes into considerati

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