The Idea of Europe in Literature

by Fendler, Susanne; Wittlinger, Ruth; Crick, Bernard

• ISBN13: 9780333721896
• ISBN10: 0333721896
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Explores literary representations of Europe and its nation states.

Author Biography

Susanne Fendler is Assistant Professor at the University of Wurzburg, Germany. Ruth Wittlinger is Lecturer in European Studies at the University of Durham, Stockton Campus.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Notes on the Contributors	p. xv
Acknowledgements	p. xviii
Introduction: The Idea of Europe - the Contribution of Literature by Susanne Fendler and Ruth Wittlinger	p. xix
Portrayal of the Continent
Charlotte Bronte's Alternative 'European Community'	p. 3
'Nation and Narration': Continental Europe and the English Novel	p. 31
Schlosses and the Scent of Pine: Images of Austria and Germany in the English Historical Romance and Gothic Romance since 1945	p. 44
Discovering 'Europe' in the Process of Repatriation: Primo Levi's La Tregua	p. 64
Inner/Outer Perspectives in Comparison
World Fiction: the Transformation of the English/Western Literature Canon	p. 85
France and its DOM: the Ambivalence of European Identity	p. 101
Immigrants in Britain: National Identities and Stereotypes	p. 119
A Never Closer Union? The Idea of the European Union in Selected Works of Malcolm Bradbury	p. 138
The Idea of Europe and National Identity
A Romanian View of Europe: George Uscatescu	p. 159
Eyvind Johnson and the History of Europe: Many Times in One Place	p. 173
Englishness from the Outside	p. 192
Memories of Hell: Kieslowski's Vision of European Subjectivity	p. 207
Europeans: Foreigners in Their Own Land	p. 225
Index	p. 240
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