The international novel /
Annabel Patterson here turns her well-known concern with political history in early modern England into an engine for investigating our own era and a much wider terrain. The focus of this book is, broadly, nationalism and internationalism today, approached not theoretically but through the lens of f...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Yale University Press,
2014
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Annabel Patterson here turns her well-known concern with political history in early modern England into an engine for investigating our own era and a much wider terrain. The focus of this book is, broadly, nationalism and internationalism today, approached not theoretically but through the lens of fiction. Novels are uniquely capable of dealing with abstract problems by embodying them in the experience of persons, thereby rendering them more "real." Patterson takes twelve novels from (almost) all over the world: India, Africa, Turkey, Crete, the Balkans, Palestine, Afghanistan, South America, and Mexico, novels which illustrate the dire effects of some of the following: imperialism, partition, annexation, ethnic and religious strife, boundaries redrawn by aggression, the virus of dictatorships, the vulnerability of small countries, and the meddling of the Great Powers. All are highly instructive, and excellent reads |
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| Item Description: | "Maps by Daniel Mugaburu"--Title page verso |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 261 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 030021040X 9780300210408 |
| Language: | In English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
