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| Preface | ||
| Introduction: The Cult of Power | 1 | |
| 1 | Heroic Action: Narratives of Imperialism | 18 |
| Heroic action in The Rescue | 28 | |
| The hero ironised: Lord Jim and Nostromo | 39 | |
| Jesters and heroes: Chesterton, Shaw and Napoleon | 49 | |
| 2 | Superhuman Arts: Narratives of Nationalistic Faith | 64 |
| Martyred prophets: Buchan's Prester John and Shaw's St Joan | 73 | |
| 'Some queer dark god': Lawrence's 'leadership' novels of the twenties | 82 | |
| Demonic enchantments: The Magician, Mephisto and the rise of fascism | 96 | |
| 3 | Sexual Dominance: Leaders and Lovers in Fiction Between the Wars | 107 |
| Lawless sheiks and living Quetzalcoatls | 116 | |
| Sex symbols satirised: Huxley's Point Counter Point and Lewis's Revenge for Love | 130 | |
| Unsubmissive women | 140 | |
| 4 | Violence: The Thirties Thriller and 'the Gathering Storm' | 155 |
| Household's Rogue Male: 'a beast in its den' | 161 | |
| Eric Ambler and the 'infernal machine' | 166 | |
| Graham Greene: 'the house infected' | 174 | |
| 5 | Law: The Liberal Critique and the Totalitarian Nightmare | 196 |
| The critique of liberal justice: A Passage to India and It's a Battlefield | 204 | |
| The totalitarian nightmare: Trial of a Judge and Darkness at Noon | 222 | |
| 6 | Technopower: 'Leviathan on Wheels' in Dystopian Science Fiction | 236 |
| Man/machine | 246 | |
| Individual/mass | 259 | |
| Energy/entropy | 268 | |
| Bibliography | 283 | |
| Index | 297 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Brandon Jones
reviewed Fictions of power in English literature, 1900-1950 on October 11, 2017
Fictions of power in English literature
A good in-depth look at how women got on in the Middle Ages. Erler and Kowaleski's contributors paint fine portraits of strong, active women, who faced growing demands for male control of society. The researchers show an eventful age, full of dramatic struggles -- far from the common image of a static traditional "dark age." Only very slowly and with enormous difficulty were women were stripped of rights and powers. And the age of male control was quite temporary, as Western women launched endless initiatives to reassert their authority step by step.
The book closes with hopeful signs, which brought the Middle Ages to a close. For example, it shows the primary role of women in a movement for education of both sexes. When these women taught, they did it in their vernacular languages. And partly due to their growing influence, Latin declined as the language of learning.
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