TY - BOOK AU - Berberich,Christine TI - The image of the English gentleman in twentieth-century literature: Englishness and nostalgia SN - 9780754661269 (alk. paper) PY - 2007/// CY - Aldershot, Hampshire, England PB - Ashgate KW - English fiction KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Gentry in literature KW - Men in literature KW - Upper class in literature KW - Nostalgia in literature KW - National characteristics, English, in literature KW - Group identity in literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-201) and index; 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0712/2007008443.html ER -