Middlebrow Satire in the Works of P. G. Wodehouse, G. K. Chesterton and Nancy Mitford
Middlebrow Satire in the Works of P. G. Wodehouse, G. K. Chesterton and Nancy Mitford

Author: Daniel Buckingham

Publisher:

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781527552357

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Satirists have always painted themselves as paragons, correcting the foibles of their societies and punishing wrongdoers. By contrast, literary scholars emphasise the mode's indeterminacy, instability, and aggression, concluding that satire is too unpalatable to persuade, reform, or injure its readers. But what if they're looking in the wrong places?This new perspective on satire frames the question of satiric efficacy against three middlebrow writers: P.G. Wo.

Pigeon Pie
Pigeon Pie

Author: Nancy Mitford

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2021-09-30

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0241567572

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Set at the outbreak of World War II, Lady Sophia Garfield dreams of becoming a beautiful spy but manages not to notice a nest of German agents right under her nose. Until the murder of her maid and the kidnapping of her beloved bulldog force them on her attention, with heroic and absurd results. One of Mitford's earliest novels and written before Christmas 1939, Pigeon Pie is delivered with a touch lighter than that of her later masterpieces but no less entertaining. This comedy combines glamour, wit, and a fiendishly absurd plot into an irresistible literary confection. 'This sparking and deliciously acid commentary of the social world.' - The Scotsman

A History of English Literature
A History of English Literature

Author: Michael Alexander

Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 9780333913970

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This text provides a comprehensive survey of one of the richest and oldest literatures in the world. Presented as a narrative, and usable as a work of reference, this text offers an account of literature from the beginnings of English until the year 2000.

A Short History of English Literature
A Short History of English Literature

Author: Harry Blamires

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-02-28

Total Pages: 493

ISBN-13: 1134942109

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First published in 2012. This work of introduction is designed to escort the reader through some six centuries of English literature. It begins in the fourteenth century at the point at which the language written in our country is recognizably our own, and ends in the 1950s. It is a compact survey, summing up the substance and quality of the individual achievements that make up our literature. The aim is to leave the reader informed about each writer’s main output, sensitive to the special character of his gifts, and aware of his place in the story of our literature as a whole.

Mr Skeffington
Mr Skeffington

Author: Elizabeth Von Arnim

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-09-15

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13:

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'Mr. Skeffington' is a drama genre novel written by Elizabeth von Arnim. The story revolves around a spoiled woman named Fanny Trellis, who is a renowned beauty with many suitors. She loves her brother Trippy and would do anything to help him. Fanny learns that Trippy has embezzled money from his employer Job Skeffington. To save her brother from prosecution, Fanny pursues and marries the lovestruck Skeffington. Disgusted by the arrangement, in part because of his prejudice against Skeffington being Jewish, Trippy leaves home to fight in the Lafayette Escadrille in World War I.

Short Story
Short Story

Author: Paul March-Russell

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2009-05-15

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 074863214X

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This new general introduction emphasises the importance of the short story to an understanding of modern fiction.In twenty succinct chapters, the study paints a complete portrait of the short story - its history, culture, aesthetics and economics. European innovators such as Chekhov, Flaubert and Kafka are compared to Irish, New Zealand and British practitioners such as Joyce, Mansfield and Carter as well as writers in the American tradition, from Hawthorne and Poe to Barthelme and Carver.Fresh attention is paid to experimental, postcolonial and popular fiction alongside developments in Anglo-American, Hispanic and European literature. Critical approaches to the short story are debated and reassessed, while discussion of the short story is related to contemporary critical theory. In what promises to be essential reading for students and academics, the study sets out to prove that the short story remains vital to the emerging culture of the twenty-first century.

Exploring Borders and Boundaries in the Humanities
Exploring Borders and Boundaries in the Humanities

Author: Melih Karakuzu

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2021-05-26

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1527570290

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In a ‘post-everything’ world, we have felt more pain than happiness in building and tampering with borders. The term ‘border’ has been expanded to become a ploy for grim, chauvinistic, self-flattery, and ultra-nationalist bigotry. We have also faced notorious coverage of the ‘border’ in the media worldwide, and its diverse forms have been extensively deployed in cinema and literature. Centering on a wide range of literary and cinematic genres, the contributors to this volume explore and explain distinct theoretical and scholarly arguments to promote research on literary, linguistic, and media representations of the word ‘border.’

Novelists Against Social Change
Novelists Against Social Change

Author: Kate Macdonald

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-02-22

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1137457724

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Novelists Against Social Change studies the writing of John Buchan, Dornford Yates and Angela Thirkell to show how these conservative authors put their fears and anxieties into their best-selling fiction. Resisting the threats of change in social class, politics, the freedom of women, and professionalization produced their strongest works.

The Militarization of the European Union
The Militarization of the European Union

Author: Kees van der Pijl

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2021-01-19

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1527564827

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From the establishment of NATO in 1949, Western Europe has been under Anglo-American tutelage in military and security matters. Several countries, most notably France and (since reunification) Germany, have experienced this as a hindrance to the pursuit of their particular interests. Since 2008, the European Commission has actively joined the quest for “strategic autonomy” within NATO. The elections of Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron in 2016-17 further widened the Atlantic rift, while the COVID-19 crisis with its colossal economic costs has, in turn, exacerbated the already worsening geopolitical tensions with states like Russia and China. With chapters on the politics and economics of European defence, on France, Germany, and Russia, the EU’s energy provision, the militarization of migration control, and the restructuring of the transatlantic bond, this volume offers an up-to-date, critical assessment of the militarization of European integration, written by established scholars in the fields of international relations and security studies.