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In Diplomacy in Postwar British Literature and Culture, Krzakowski examines representations of international relations in fiction and non-fiction by Rebecca West, Lawrence Durrell, Olivia Manning, and John le Carré, and in the films of Alfred Hitchcock respond to the political instability of the postwar period. This study argues that the codes and protocols of diplomatic practice have shaped modern British fiction and film, and that diplomatic papers and protocols offer a new way to trace the continuities between geopolitics and cultural production in the aftermath of the Second World War.



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Chapter 1: Arbitrating the Aftermath: Rebecca West’s Journalism and the Saga of the Century

Chapter 2: Alfred Hitchcock’s International Plots

Chapter 3: Diplomatic Revisions: Lawrence Durrell’s Mountolive and the Postwar Novel

Chapter 4: Nationalism and the British Council in Olivia Manning’s Balkan Trilogy

Chapter 5: Secret Soldiers: John le Carré’s Spies and the Politics of Stability

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      Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
      Publication Date: 16/05/2023
      ISBN13: 9781683932901, 978-1683932901
      ISBN10: 1683932900

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      In Diplomacy in Postwar British Literature and Culture, Krzakowski examines representations of international relations in fiction and non-fiction by Rebecca West, Lawrence Durrell, Olivia Manning, and John le Carré, and in the films of Alfred Hitchcock respond to the political instability of the postwar period. This study argues that the codes and protocols of diplomatic practice have shaped modern British fiction and film, and that diplomatic papers and protocols offer a new way to trace the continuities between geopolitics and cultural production in the aftermath of the Second World War.



      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1: Arbitrating the Aftermath: Rebecca West’s Journalism and the Saga of the Century

      Chapter 2: Alfred Hitchcock’s International Plots

      Chapter 3: Diplomatic Revisions: Lawrence Durrell’s Mountolive and the Postwar Novel

      Chapter 4: Nationalism and the British Council in Olivia Manning’s Balkan Trilogy

      Chapter 5: Secret Soldiers: John le Carré’s Spies and the Politics of Stability

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