The Centre of Things: Political Fiction in Britain from Disraeli to the Present by Christopher Harvie
`This is an excellent survey of the British political novel.' - Contemporary Review
The Centre of Things
Summary
An historical and critical work on the role of fiction in British politics, focusing on Disraeli, Galt, Eliot, Trollope, Wells and Cary among others. This witty book is the first treatment of its subject for nearly seventy years.
The Centre of Things Summary
The Centre of Things Reviews
`... an extraordinarily busy, exfoliating book, bursting its banks with plot summaries and potted historical explanations ... very readable indeed.' - Valentine Cunningham, New Statesman and Society
`This is an excellent survey of the British political novel.' - Contemporary Review
`Students of politics as well as literature will find it very stimulating' - The Scotsman Weekend
Table of Contents
Preface The Conversation of People who Counted The Literature of Crisis The Triumph of Disraeli Landscape with Candidates The Golden Age: the Mid-Victorian Political Novel Revolutionaries and Elitists, 1886-1914 In Time of Strife, 1914-26 Class? Nation? Commonwealth? The Fall and Rise of British Political Fiction Index
Additional information
NPB9780044455936
9780044455936
0044455933
The Centre of Things: Political Fiction in Britain from Disraeli to the Present by Christopher Harvie
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
1991-10-24
256
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