Reading Espionage Fiction

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Narrative, Conflict and Commitment from World War I to the Contemporary Era

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Av Martin Griffin, University of Tennessee) Griffin, Martin (Associate Professor in the Department of English

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Reading Espionage Fiction: Narrative, Conflict and Commitment from World War I to the Contemporary Era probes the ways in which the struggles and loyalties of political modernity have been portrayed in the espionage story over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Reading works by authors such as Somerset Maugham, Helen MacInnes, John le Carre, Sam E. Greenlee and Gerald Seymour as popular literature deserving of sustained attention, this book shows how these narratives have both created a modern genre and, at the same time, sought an escape from its limitations. Martin Griffin takes up the importance of plot and character and argues that, in this branch of fiction, the personal has always and ever been political.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-01-31
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor200
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399520805

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Martin Griffin is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Tennessee. He is the author of Ashes of the Mind: War and Memory in Northern Literature, 1865–1900 (2009), co-author of Narrative, Identity, and the Map of Cultural Policy: Once Upon a Time in a Globalized World with Constance DeVereaux (2013), and co-editor of Stories of Nation: Fictions, Politics, and the American Experience with Christopher Hebert (2017).

AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Revisiting Ramón Mercader, 19661. The Maugham Paradigm: Performing English Identity amid the Surges of History2. The Past as Prologue: Antifascism and the Prophetic Mode in Ambler and MacNeice 3. "We’ll Meet Again": War, Memories, and Loss in MacInnes and Garve 4. John le Carré and the Jews5. The American Uncertainty: Genre and Borders in Charles McCarry and Don DeLillo6. Race and Intelligence: African-Americans and the Secret Life7. The Soldier’s Song: Britain’s Irish War in Gerald Seymour’s Trilogy8. Espionage Fiction and the Lost Adversary: Carlyle and MathisonWorks CitedIndex