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Imperial Refugee: Olivia Manning's Fictions of War
Eve Patten
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Description for Imperial Refugee: Olivia Manning's Fictions of War
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Olivia Manning (1908-1980) had a reputation as a difficult personality and this has threatened to obscure her reputation as a writer. The book aims to recover Manning's place as a pre-eminent novelist of British wartime experience. Manning belonged to a British literary generation which held tenaciously to its diverse Irish connections in the wartime years, but, as with Cyril Connolly or Lawrence Durrell, her claims on Irishness were intermittent and often distinctly pragmatic. The book deals in depth with a diverse range of biographical, historical and literary detail. It examines the troubled interface between public and domestic narratives" and ... Read more
Olivia Manning (1908-1980) had a reputation as a difficult personality and this has threatened to obscure her reputation as a writer. The book aims to recover Manning's place as a pre-eminent novelist of British wartime experience. Manning belonged to a British literary generation which held tenaciously to its diverse Irish connections in the wartime years, but, as with Cyril Connolly or Lawrence Durrell, her claims on Irishness were intermittent and often distinctly pragmatic. The book deals in depth with a diverse range of biographical, historical and literary detail. It examines the troubled interface between public and domestic narratives" and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cork University Press
Number of pages
242
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
242
Place of Publication
Cork, Ireland
ISBN
9781859184820
SKU
V9781859184820
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99-10
About Eve Patten
Eve Patten is Associate Professor in the School of English, Trinty College Dublin
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