John le Carré and the Cold War

by Manning, Toby,, Dr

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Title Statements

Full title :John le Carré and the Cold War / Toby Manning.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2018

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Place of Publication:London, UK
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2018

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (viii, 239 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781350036413, 1350036412, 9781350036406, 1350036404
oclc:on1021163666
LC Classification:PR6062.E33
Dewey Decimal:823.914

Cover; Contents; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Introduction: â#x80;#x98;A Nationâ#x80;#x99;s Political Healthâ#x80;#x99;; The enemy; The state; The nation; Cold-War consensus to critical consensus; 1 â#x80;#x98;Murderers and Spiesâ#x80;#x99;: The Communist Threat and Call for the Dead; â#x80;#x98;Mass philosophyâ#x80;#x99;: The Cold-War enemy; â#x80;#x98;A symbol of nothing at allâ#x80;#x99;: The British state; â#x80;#x98;Deep love of Englandâ#x80;#x99;: Imagining the nation; â#x80;#x98;Who was then the gentleman?â#x80;#x99;: Nation, state and enemy; 2 â#x80;#x98;Breeze Blocks and Barbed Wireâ#x80;#x99;: The Berlin Wall and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; â#x80;#x98;Party termsâ#x80;#x99;: The communist enemy.

Â#x80;#x98;Not quite a gentlemanâ#x80;#x99;: Leamas and the classless British nationâ#x80;#x98;We are defensiveâ#x80;#x99;: English empiricism, ideology and the British state; 3 â#x80;#x98;Looking at His Own Reflectionâ#x80;#x99;: The Establishment and The Looking Glass War; â#x80;#x98;A sort of Cuba situationâ#x80;#x99;: Reflections of the enemy; â#x80;#x98;Government hiringsâ#x80;#x99;: The Department, the Circus and the British state; â#x80;#x98;The mystery of England…

Subjects

Cold War (1945-1989) in literature Cold War in literature Criticism, interpretation, etc Espionage in literature Espionnage dans la littérature Guerre froide dans la littérature HISTORY -- Modern Le Carré, John LITERARY CRITICISM -- European Literary studies: fiction, novelists & … Literary studies: from c 1900 - The Cold War