HO Janice, Nation and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century British Novel

Abstract

Nation and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century British Novel addresses the ways modern novels represent or imagine new forms of citizenship and posits that literature can foresee major historical or political changes, as well as inscribe national developments at the heart of characterisation and narrative strategies. By looking at novels by E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, Sam Selvon, Buchi Emecheta and Salman Rushdie, Janice Ho shows that British literature interrogates philo...