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Diplomacy in Postwar British Literature and Culture

Caroline Zoe Krzakowski

In Diplomacy in Postwar British Literature and Culture, Krzakowski examines how representations of British envoys—diplomats, officials, and spies— in fiction and non-fiction by Rebecca West, Lawrence Durrell, Olivia Manning, and John le Carré, as well as in the films of Alfred Hitchcock respond to the political instability of the postwar period. This study argues that the rise of international relations in the twentieth century shaped modern British fiction and film, and offers a new way to trace the continuities between geopolitics and British cultural production in the aftermath of the Second World War.

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University Press Copublishing Division / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Pages: 208 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-68393-290-1 • Hardback • May 2023 • $95.00 • (£73.00)
978-1-68393-291-8 • eBook • May 2023 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Modernism & the Avant-Garde
Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century, Literary Criticism / Women Authors

Caroline Zoe Krzakowski is associate professor of English at Northern Michigan University.

Chapter 1: Arbitrating the Aftermath: Rebecca West’s Journalism and the Saga of the Century

Chapter 2: Alfred Hitchcock’s International Plots

Chapter 3: Diplomatic Revisions: Lawrence Durrell’s Mountolive and the Postwar Novel

Chapter 4: Nationalism and the British Council in Olivia Manning’s Balkan Trilogy

Chapter 5: Secret Soldiers: John le Carré’s Spies and the Politics of Stability

Diplomacy in Postwar British Literature and Culture

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  • In Diplomacy in Postwar British Literature and Culture, Krzakowski examines how representations of British envoys—diplomats, officials, and spies— in fiction and non-fiction by Rebecca West, Lawrence Durrell, Olivia Manning, and John le Carré, as well as in the films of Alfred Hitchcock respond to the political instability of the postwar period. This study argues that the rise of international relations in the twentieth century shaped modern British fiction and film, and offers a new way to trace the continuities between geopolitics and British cultural production in the aftermath of the Second World War.

Details
Details
  • University Press Copublishing Division / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
    Pages: 208 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½
    978-1-68393-290-1 • Hardback • May 2023 • $95.00 • (£73.00)
    978-1-68393-291-8 • eBook • May 2023 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
    Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Modernism & the Avant-Garde
    Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century, Literary Criticism / Women Authors
Author
Author
  • Caroline Zoe Krzakowski is associate professor of English at Northern Michigan University.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Chapter 1: Arbitrating the Aftermath: Rebecca West’s Journalism and the Saga of the Century

    Chapter 2: Alfred Hitchcock’s International Plots

    Chapter 3: Diplomatic Revisions: Lawrence Durrell’s Mountolive and the Postwar Novel

    Chapter 4: Nationalism and the British Council in Olivia Manning’s Balkan Trilogy

    Chapter 5: Secret Soldiers: John le Carré’s Spies and the Politics of Stability

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