Reading Paul Scott: 'The Raj Quartet' and 'Staying On'

Reading Paul Scott: 'The Raj Quartet' and 'Staying On' (Literature Insights)

A study of Scott's four great novels of British India - The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion, The Towers of Silence, A Division of the Spoils - and of the popular coda, Staying On.

CONTENTS:
Part 1. Life and Works: An Overview
Part 2. Facts, Fictions, and Verisimilitude: Representing the British Raj
Part 3. â€˜Coming to the end of themselves as they wereâ€™: Witnessing Imperial Decay
Part 4. â€˜Thereâ€™s nothing I can doâ€™: Embodying Personal Nullity
Part 5: Class and Silence
Part 6. Dreams, Nightmares, & Realpolitik: Representing India (and Pakistan)
Appendix 1: Granada TVâ€™s adaptations of Scott
Appendix 2: Criticsâ€™ Corner and Further Reading
Bibliography

John Lennard's books include â€˜But I Digress: The Exploitation of Parentheses in English Printed Verseâ€™ (1991), â€˜The Poetry Handbookâ€™ (1996; 2005), with Mary Luckhurst â€˜The Drama Handbookâ€™ (2002), and the Literature Insights â€˜Hamletâ€™ (2007). He is the general editor of the Humanities-Ebooks Genre Fiction Sightlines and Genre Fiction Monographs series, and has written several Sightlines titles, as well as two critical collections, 'Of Modern Dragons and other essays on Genre Fiction' (2007) and 'Of Sex and Faerie; further essays in Genre Fictionâ€™ (2010), both of which are available in Kindle editions as well as in paperback direct from Troubador.co.uk. He is General Editor of HEBâ€™s Genre Fiction Sightlines and Monographs series, for which he has written on Reginald Hill, Walter Mosley, Octavia E. Butler, Ian McDonald, and Tamora Pierce.
Country USA
Manufacturer Humanities-Ebooks
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2012-11-16
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Humanities-Ebooks
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2012-11-16
Format	Kindle eBook

Reading Paul Scott: 'The Raj Quartet' and 'Staying On' (Literature Insights)

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