Berberich, Christine,  1969- <br/><br/>
The image of the English gentleman in twentieth-century literature :  Englishness and nostalgia / 
Christine Berberich 
 - Aldershot, Hampshire, England :  Ashgate,  2007 
 - viii, 207 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-201) and index 
<br/><br/>The gentleman : an elusive term -- From knight to public-school boy : following the gentleman through the ages -- A popular literary trope : a brief history of the gentleman in literature -- The survival of the gentleman : Siegfried Sassoon, England and the sporting gentleman -- Dancing to the music of Widmerpool : the gentleman in Anthony Powell's A dance to the music of time -- Arcadia revisited? : Evelyn Waugh's gentlemen -- A pillar upholding nothing : nostalgia, Englishness and the English gentleman in Kazuo Ishiguro's The remains of the day -- Regression and reaction : past realities and future possibilities 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780754661269 (alk. paper)  RM323.95 0754661261 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English fiction--History and criticism--20th century<br/>Gentry in literature<br/>Men in literature<br/>Upper class in literature<br/>Nostalgia in literature<br/>National characteristics, English, in literature<br/>Group identity in literature