دانلود کتاب Fictions of Power in English Literature: 1900-1950

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Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: The Cult of Power
1. Heroic Action: Narratives of Imperialism
Heroic action in The Rescue
The hero ironised: Lord Jim and Nostromo
Jesters and heroes: Chesterton, Shaw and Napoleon
2. Superhuman Arts: Narratives of Nationalistic Faith
Martyred prophets: Buchan’s Prester John and Shaw’s St Joan
‘Some queer dark god’: Lawrence’s ‘leadership’ novels of the twenties
Demonic enchantments: The Magician, Mephisto and the rise of fascism
3. Sexual Dominance: Leaders and Lovers in Fiction Between the Wars
Lawless sheiks and living Quetzalcoatls
Sex symbols satirised: Huxley’s Point Counter Point and Lewis’s Revenge for Love
Unsubmissive women
4. Violence: The Thirties Thriller and ‘the Gathering Storm\'
Household’s Rogue Male: ‘a beast in its den’
Eric Ambler and the ‘infernal machine’
Graham Greene: ‘the house infected’
5. Law: The Liberal Critique and the Totalitarian Nightmare
The critique of liberal justice: A Passage to India and It\'s a Battlefield
The totalitarian nightmare: Trial of a Judge and Darkness at Noon
6. Technopower: ‘Leviathan on Wheels’ in Dystopian Science Fiction
Man/machine
Individual/mass
Energy/entropy
Bibliography
Index