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advertising: in Larkin’s “Sunny Prestatyn,”; in Orwell’s Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Albert, Prince
Allen, Walter
Allsop, Kenneth
All What Jazz (Larkin)
“Along the Tightrope” (Wain)
Amis, Kingsley: in Angry Young Men; on James Bond; British values as English values in; Byatt rejects masculine form of; examining works with focus on gender; on Fleming effect; in the Movement; new man in works of; Orwell as pivotal link to; on post-imperial gentlemanliness; as professional; protagonists of; Pym’s An Unsuitable Attachment and; read within discourse of imperial gentlemanliness; read within paradigm of class mobility; Zeitgeist novels of. See also Lucky Jim
Angry Young Men; Amis’s Lucky Jim as most famous novel of; on autonomy; James Bond compared with; Byatt and Pym’s works compared with those of; Byatt’s The Shadow of the Sun and; central romances in novels of; changes in Englishman and nation-state symbolized in works of; on constraints on true masculinity; on decency; Larkin compared with; lucky antagonists of; male protagonists in; masculine integrity forged in opposition to feminine domestic space in works of; on masculinity and Englishness as related; media’s role in creation of; political ambivalence of; post-gentleman signified by; Pym’s An Unsuitable Attachment and; realism of; term coined; Wain and; welfare state associated with. See also Amis, Kingsley; Braine, John; Osborne, John; Wain, John
Arnold, Matthew
Arnold, Thomas
Auden, W. H.
Austen, Jane
autonomy: in Larkin’s poetry; male protagonists perceive lack of; Wain’s Hurry on Down attributes to working class; women’s sexuality and masculine
“Best Society” (Larkin)
Beveridge Report
blasé attitude
Bond, James. See James Bond novels
“Born Yesterday” (Larkin)
bourgeoisie. See middle class (bourgeoisie)
Bourke, Joanna
Bowen, Elizabeth
Boy Scouts
boys’ magazines
Braine, John: in Angry Young Men; new man in works of; protagonists of; Room at the Top
Brideshead Revisited (Waugh)
Bright Young People
Bulldog Drummond (McNeile)
Burgess, Guy
Burke, Edmund
Burmese Days (Orwell)
Byatt, A. S.: middle-class female protagonist depicted by; speaks of repressed histories against which post-imperial masculinities have defined themselves; water-light-glass used to describe creative process by. See also Shadow of the Sun, The
Carlyle, Thomas
Casino Royale (Fleming); Bond as civil servant in; fear of collapse in; inaugurates James Bond series; narrative style; plot summary; torture of Bond in; women in
Cecil, Lord David
chivalry: in James Bond; chivalric homosociality; colonial insubordination versus English; concerns about word; in English religion; as gentlemanly trait; Larkin on; in Orwell’s Keep the Aspidistra Flying; Prince Albert marries bourgeois values and; as public school virtue; of pukka sahib; in Pym’s An Unsuitable Attachment; as site of contention; in Wain’s Hurry on Down; in Waugh’s Scoop
“Church Going” (Larkin)
civil service
Clarendon Commission
class: Angry Young Men on; in Byatt’s The Shadow of the Sun; classed civilities; in gender norms; mobility; Orwell on; the picaresque and; public schools create classed society; in Pym’s An Unsuitable Attachment; in Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses; in Scott’s The Jewel in the Crown; in Wain’s Hurry on Down; warfare; in Waugh’s Scoop
Clergyman’s Daughter, A (Orwell)
Coming Up for Air (Orwell)
common sense: in Amis’s Lucky Jim; in Byatt’s The Shadow of the Sun; in decency; in Englishness; in masculinity; Orwell on; in Waugh’s Scoop
Connell, R. W.
Conquest, Robert
Conrad, Joseph
consumerism: Larkin’s “Sunny Prestatyn” on; new masculinity and; Orwell on gentlemanly ideal and; in Orwell’s Keep the Aspidistra Flying; in Waugh’s Scoop
decency: in Amis’s Lucky Jim; Angry Young Men on; James Bond novels breaks mold of; in Byatt’s The Shadow of the Sun; decent man and the postwar nation; gentleman replaced by decent man; as mark of Englishness and gentlemanliness; Orwell on; in Orwell’s Keep the Aspidistra Flying; in Wain’s Hurry on Down
Decline and Fall (Waugh)
“Deep Analysis” (Larkin)
Defoe, Daniel
Dell, Ethel M.
detachment: in anthropology; Arnoldian; devolution into boredom; as gentlemanly trait; in Larkin’s poetry; in postcolonial gentleman; in Pym’s An Unsuitable Attachment; in Pym’s narrative style; in service ideal; in Waugh’s early novels; in Waugh’s Scoop
diasporic identity
“Difficulties with Girls” (Larkin)
disinteredness: blasé attitude contrasted with; as English trait; feminine self-renunciation distinguished from; as gentlemanly trait; in Hughes’s Tom Brown’s Schooldays; imperial; in Orwell’s Keep the Aspidistra Flying; in postcolonial gentleman; in professional service ethic; in Waugh’s Scoop
“Dockery and Son” (Larkin)
Doctor No (Fleming)
domesticity: in Byatt’s The Shadow of the Sun; home as defining space of Englishness; in Larkin’s “Dockery and Son,”; in Larkin’s “Self’s the Man,”; in Larkin’s “Sunny Prestatyn,”; modernization changes; in Orwell’s Keep the Aspidistra Flying; suburban; in Wain’s Hurry on Down
domestic servants
Down and Out in Paris and London (Orwell)
Dyer, Reginald E. H.
Eco, Umberto
egalitarianism: in Amis’s Lucky Jim; new hero reflects anxieties of; Orwell on; postwar writers seen as advocates of; in Wain’s Hurry on Down; welfare state signifies
Eliot, T. S.
emasculation
Empire: colonial collaborators with; cosmopolitan imperialism; deterioration of imperial confidence; dissolution of; gentlemanliness emerges with; imperial nostalgia; Larkin and dissolution of; public schools in making of; in Pym’s work; welfare state creation and decline of; women become Empire builders. See also postcolonial gentleman
empiricism: in decency; in Englishness; of Larkin; of Orwell; of Wain
“England Your England” (Orwell)
Englishness: Angry Young Men on; Arnold on; James Bond’s; in British identity; in Byatt’s The Shadow of the Sun; canonization of Englishmen writing about Englishmen; Carlyle on; common sense of; the countryside seen as essence of; decency as characteristic of; disinterestedness as characteristic of; folding middle-class modernity into; Forster on Englishman as incomplete person; in Forster’s A Passage to India; gentlemanliness linked to; home as defining space of; imperial; as Janus-faced; in Larkin’s poetry; Leavis on; as metonymic of imperial nation; middle-class; Modernism seen as non-English; ordinary Englishman; Orwell on; overlaps with masculinity; and postcolonial gentleman; postcolonial studies of; post-imperial; privatized ideal of; professional Englishmen; public schools articulate ideals of; in Pym’s An Unsuitable Attachment; as racially encoded; religion in; in Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses; sartorial splendor as mark of status in; in Scott’s The Jewel in the Crown; self-restraint as trait of; shared traits with gentlemanliness; traits of; as white and provincial
Eyre, Edward
Face of England, The (Blunden)
“Farewell to False Love, A” (Raleigh)
Few Green Leaves, A (Pym)
Fielding, Henry
Firbank, Arthur Annesley Ronald
“First Sight” (Larkin)
Fleming, Ian: aristocratic background of; examining works with focus on gender; read within discourse of imperial gentlemanliness. See also James Bond novels
Forster, E. M.: Angry Young Men contrasted with; anthropological turn in works of; Byatt and; on detachment in English character; on Englishman as incomplete person; “Notes on the English Character,”; on public schools and middle class; visits to India. See also Passage to India, A
Forsyte Saga, The (Galsworthy)
Frantzen, Allen
Galsworthy, John
games ethic
gender: Angry Young Men on; in Byatt’s The Shadow of the Sun; and class; in everyday life; in Fleming’s James Bond novels; in Forster’s A Passage to India; gendering the nation; inherited scripts; in Larkin’s poetry; Orwell’s gendered Englishness; in Orwell’s Keep the Aspidistra Flying; postwar gentleman as conservative in terms of; public schools create gendered society; in Pym’s style; in Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses; in Scott’s The Jewel in the Crown; in Wain’s Hurry on Down; in Waugh’s Scoop; in welfare state; women deviate from conventions of; World War I affects code of. See also masculinity; women
gentlemen: aristocratic and bourgeois elements in; blasé attitude in; James Bond’s gentlemanliness; in Byatt’s The Shadow of the Sun; Catholic; chivalry as trait of; clubs; code of honor for; constructing; country; decent man replaces; democratized; detachment as trait of; disinteredness as trait of; effeminacy attributed to; Englishness linked to; in Forster’s A Passage to India; ideal evolves over time; imperial; integration and alteration in; in Larkin’s poetry; as metropolitan ideal; middle class associated with; modern femininity and traditional; native; natural; as not letting the side down; Orwell and ideals of; as out of place in Waugh’s Scoop; performative gentlemanliness; post-gentleman displaces; professional; public schools in production of; in Pym’s An Unsuitable Attachment; real; shared traits with Englishness; as structured in relation to an Other; traits of; as universal; Victorian/Edwardian; in Wain’s Hurry on Down; Waugh’s satires of; in Waugh’s Scoop. See also postcolonial gentleman; post-gentleman
Government of India Act of 1919
Green, Martin
Handful of Dust, A (Waugh)
Happy as Larry (Hinde)
Harrison, Tom
Heart of Darkness (Conrad)
“Here” (Larkin)
heteronormativity: in decency; in James Bond novels; of Larkin; of the Movement; of Orwell; realist male writers’ return to; in Wain’s Hurry on Down; of welfare state
heterosexuality: anxiety of Angry Young Men’s; as characteristic of new man; enforcement of; of Fleming’s James Bond; in Forster’s A Passage to India; realist male writers’ return to; welfare state institutionalizes
highbrow culture
High Windows (Larkin)
Hinde, Thomas
homosexuality: continuum of homosociality and; decriminalization of; homoeroticism in James Bond novels; increased visibility of; Larkin and alternative sexualities; Orwell on; in Pym’s novels; in Scott’s The Jewel in the Crown; seen as destabilizing
homosociality: in Angry Young Man narratives; in Byatt’s The Shadow of the Sun; chivalric; continuum of homosexuality and; in imperial world; institutionally structured; in Pym’s An Unsuitable Attachment; women excluded from
Hughes, Tom
Hurry on Down (Wain); James Bond compared with Charles Lumley; Byatt’s The Shadow of the Sun compared with; gentlemanliness in; lucky antagonist of; as neo-picaresque; “new man” in; original title of; Orwell’s Comstock as prototype for Charles Lumley; Pym’s An Unsuitable Attachment compared with; seem as dismantling hegemonic masculinity; welfare state in shaping of; women and love in
“If My Darling” (Larkin)
imperial romances
“Importance of Elsewhere, The” (Larkin)
In Memoriam (Tennyson)
“Inside the Whale” (Orwell)
“In the Movement” (Scott)
irony: Larkinesque; in Pym’s An Unsuitable Attachment; in Waugh’s Scoop
James Bond novels; Angry Young Man and Bond compared; appearance of Bond; Bond as civil servant; Bond as post-gentleman; Bond as threshold figure; Bond’s hyper-awareness of his body; breaks mold of decency; Cold War context of; conflicting readings of Bond; creation of Bond; Doctor No; Englishness of Bond; gentlemanliness of Bond; heterosexuality of Bond; original readers of; professionalism of Bond; style of; stylizations of masculinity in; unbelongingness of Bond; violence perpetrated on Bond’s body; Wain’s Hurry on Down compared with; welfare state in shaping of Bond. See also Casino Royale; Moonraker
Jane and Prudence (Pym)
jazz
Jewel in the Crown, The (Scott)
Jill (Larkin)
Jones, Kennedy
journalism, Waugh’s Scoop as satire on
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (Orwell); aspidistra’s significance; Larkin’s personae compared with Comstock; masculinity and the personal linked in; as mixed bag of genres; morphs into middlebrow domestic novel; narrative trajectory of; Orwell persona in; struggle against and within domesticity in; transition from residual aristocratic to professionalized suburban model of manliness in; Wain’s Hurry on Down compared with
Kingsley, Charles
Kipling, Rudyard
“Large Cool Store, The” (Larkin)
Larkin, Philip; All What Jazz; and alternative sexualities; autonomy in works of; “Best Society,”; James Bond and personae of; “Born Yesterday,”; Byatt’s The Shadow of the Sun and; “Church Going,”; “Deep Analysis,”; “Difficulties with Girls,”; “Dockery and Son,”; empiricism of; female personae in works of; “First Sight,”; “Here,”; High Windows; “High Windows,”; “If My Darling,”; “The Importance of Elsewhere,”; on jazz; Jill; “The Large Cool Store,”; later poetics of; and Lawrence; The Less Deceived; “Lines on a Young Lady’s Photograph Album,”; “Maiden Name,”; male personae of; modernism celebrated by; in the Movement; “Mr. Bleaney,”; new realist novels linked to; Orwell as pivotal link to; as poet of postwar England; poetry imbricated in hegemonic masculinity; “Poetry of Departures,”; “Posterity,”; on post-imperial gentlemanliness; as professional; protagonists of; pseudonym Brunette Coleman; on Pym; Pym’s An Unsuitable Attachment and; Pym’s work compared with that of; read within discourse of imperial gentlemanliness; read within paradigm of class mobility; “Reason for Attendance,”; as restrained, middle-class Englishman; “Self’s the Man,”; solitude and misanthropy of; “Sunny Prestatyn,”; “Toads,”; “To the Sea,”; “Triple Time,”; “Vers de Societe,”; “Wants,”; “Wedding Wind,”; “The Whitsun Weddings,”; The Whitsun Weddings; “Wild Oats,”
Lawrence, D. H.
Leavis, F. R.
Lehmann, Rosamund
Less Deceived, The (Larkin)
Less than Angels (Pym)
Light, Alison
“Lines on a Young Lady’s Photograph Album” (Larkin)
London: in Orwell’s Keep the Aspidistra Flying; in Waugh’s Scoop
Look Back in Anger (Osborne): James Bond compared Jimmy Porter; film of; on lack of autonomy; nation and masculinity intertwined in; Orwell’s Comstock as prototype for Jimmy Dixon; political ambivalence in; Pym’s An Unsuitable Attachment compared with; seen as dismantling hegemonic masculinity; women scapegoated in
Lucky Jim (Amis): James Bond compared with Jim Dixon; Byatt’s The Shadow of the Sun compared with; lucky antagonist of; on masculinity in postwar nation; as neo-picaresque; “new man” in; Pym’s An Unsuitable Attachment compared with; seen as dismantling hegemonic masculinity; Wain reads on the radio; Wain’s Hurry on Down compared with; welfare state in shaping of Jim Dixon
MacLean, Donald
Madge, Charles
“Maiden Name” (Larkin)
Maschler, Tom
masculinity: adventurous; Arnold’s conception of manliness; James Bond’s; Christian ideal of; corporate; democratized; film depictions of; as fragile; gendering the nation; hegemonic; heteronormative; imperial; Indian; Kingsley on; in Larkin’s poetry; literature as masculine activity; lower-class; middle-class; ordinary Englishman; Orwell’s ideals of; overlaps with Englishness; post-gentleman defined against and through female protagonists; post-imperial; private versus public; public school manliness; as racially encoded; service ideal in; stylizations of English; suburban; threshold; in transition; two styles of; upper-class; in Wain’s Hurry on Down; wartime; welfare state; working-class; World War I destabilizes. See also gentlemen; “new man”
mass culture
Mass Observation
Maugham, Somerset
middlebrow culture
middle class (bourgeoisie): in Amis’s Lucky Jim; bourgeois femininity; Englishmen; gentlemanliness associated with; in Larkin’s poetry; lower; masculinity; Orwell as example of; Orwell’s criticism of; in Orwell’s Keep the Aspidistra Flying; professionalism; and public schools; radical revision between the wars; social exploration literature of; upper; in Wain’s Hurry on Down; women
Mill, John Stuart
mimic men
modernism: Angry Young Men and influence of; anti-modernism; Byatt and; crisis seen in; the Movement’s rejection of; realists contrasted with; Wain’s Hurry on Down caricatures; Waugh and
Moonraker (Fleming); on Bond’s un-Englishness; fear of collapse in; narrative style of; plot summary of; women in
Movement, the: on the artist; on autonomy; Byatt and; empiricism of; Leavis as influence on; on masculinity and Englishness as related; media’s role in creation of; members of; political ambivalence of; provincialism of; Wain and; welfare state associated with; work aimed at common reader. See also Amis, Kingsley; Larkin, Philip; Wain, John
“Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown” (Woolf)
“Mr. Bleaney” (Larkin)
Mrs. Dalloway (Woolf)
Murdoch, Iris
“muscular Christianity” movement
Mutiny of 1857
Naipaul, V. S.
Nancy boys
neo-picaresque
“new man”: Amis’s Lucky Jim ushers in age of; in Angry Young Men’s writings; James Bond as; in Byatt’s The Shadow of the Sun; conservative gender and sexual politics of; emerges from gentlemanly traits; female subjectivity and; Orwell and; in Pym’s An Unsuitable Attachment; as reconfiguration of old ideals; shift from hegemonic masculinity to; signifies emergence of modern Britain; in Wain’s Hurry on Down
“Notes on the English Character” (Forster)
Notting Hill Riots of 1958
novels of manners
“Occasional Discourse on the Nigger Question” (Carlyle)
On the Study of Celtic Literature (Arnold)
Orwell, George; Burmese Days; on class; A Clergyman’s Daughter; Coming Up for Air; contradictoriness of; on decency; deterioration of imperial confidence as context of works of; Down and Out in Paris and London; early documentary-realist novels of; in elevation of male English realist writers; on empiricism; “England Your England,”; as example of English middle class; gender-neutral politics attributed to; “Inside the Whale,”; middle class criticized by; modernism celebrated by; persona “George Orwell,”; as pivotal link to postwar writers; postwar writers compared with early; on prewar gentleman; protracted disintegration of manliness in novels of; realism of; The Road to Wigan Pier; “Rudyard Kipling,”; Wain compared with; Waugh contrasted with; writes about classes other than his own. See also Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Osborne, John: in Angry Young Men; protagonists of; Pym’s An Unsuitable Attachment and. See also Look Back in Anger
Passage to India, A (Forster); feminist and postcolonial criticism of; Scott’s The Jewel in the Crown references; on separation of personal-ethical and ethno-national; as text of empire
Perkin, Harold
“Poetry of Departures” (Larkin)
postcolonial gentleman; as neither English nor white; processes in emergence of
“Posterity” (Larkin)
post-gentleman: in Amis’s Lucky Jim; Angry Young Men affirm; James Bond as; contradictions and multiple layers in; defined against and through female protagonists; gentleman displaced by; as gentleman of postwar writers; in Larkin’s poetry; origins of; in Pym’s An Unsuitable Attachment; struggle against constrictions of imperial gentlemanliness; struggle against inherited gender scripts; in Wain’s Hurry on Down
Pritchett, V. S.
privacy, discourse of
professionalism: in Byatt’s The Shadow of the Sun; of Fleming’s James Bond; in journalism; middle-class; new writers as professionals; in Orwell’s Keep the Aspidistra Flying; professional Englishmen; professional gentleman; professional women; public schools in training of professionals; public-sector; in Pym’s An Unsuitable Attachment; in Scott’s The Jewel in the Crown; self-restraint as characteristic of; service ethic in; split in; suburban professionals; in Wain’s Hurry on Down; in welfare state
public schools: bourgeoisie and aristocracy melded in; Burgess-MacLean spy ring; in Byatt’s The Shadow of the Sun; and civil service; gentlemen produced by; ideals of Englishness articulated by; manliness inculcated by; old-boy networks; in Orwell’s Keep the Aspidistra Flying; professional idealism emphasized by; in Pym’s An Unsuitable Attachment; in Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses; in Wain’s Hurry on Down
pukka sahib
Pym, Barbara: in anthropology; clergymen’s wives in works of; Empire in works of; A Few Green Leaves; gendered style of; Jane and Prudence; Larkin on; Larkin’s work compared with that of; Less than Angels; middle-class female protagonist depicted by; narrative style of; nationalism of; novels of manners of; Quartet in Autumn; rejection of works of; service ideal in works of; Some Tame Gazelle; speaks of repressed histories against which post-imperial masculinities have defined themselves; The Sweet Dove Died; textualizes the trivial; “very Barbara Pym,”; “war of the sexes” in novels of. See also Unsuitable Attachment, An
Quartet in Autumn (Pym)
quest narratives
race: Englishness and masculinity as racially encoded; in Forster’s A Passage to India; in gender norms; gentlemanliness shaped by; Notting Hill Riots of; racism in James Bond novels; Scott’s The Jewel in the Crown on racism; in Wain’s Hurry on Down; in Waugh’s Scoop
Raleigh, Sir Walter
Raven, Simon
realism: Amis’s Lucky Jim as comic-realist; of Angry Young Men; of Byatt; comes to exemplify postwar English literature; elevation of group of male realist writers; gritty; “kitchen-sink,”; in Mass Observation; of Orwell; in Orwell’s Keep the Aspidistra Flying; social-realism; of Wain; Waugh shifts to a nostalgic
“Reason for Attendance” (Larkin)
“Remembering the ’Thirties” (Davie)
Road to Wigan Pier, The (Orwell)
Room at the Top (Braine)
“Rudyard Kipling” (Orwell)
Rushdie, Salman
Satanic Verses, The (Rushdie)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Sillitoe)
Scarry, Elaine
Scoop (Waugh); Boot as out of place; circularity of; on the countryside; discourses of imperial English gentleman shape style of; distanced gentlemanly narrative voice in; irony in; paradox between form and content of; plot summary; as satire on journalism; tone of; on transition from public service to corporations
Scott, J. D.
Scott, Paul
Sedgwick, Eve
self-governance
self-restraint: in Amis’s Lucky Jim; of James Bond; as English trait; as gentlemanly trait; Larkin’s Englishmen struggle with
“Self’s the Man” (Larkin)
Selvon, Samuel
service ideal
sexuality: in gender norms. See also heteronormativity; homosexuality
Shadow of the Sun, The (Byatt); addresses changes in middle-class woman in postwar Britain; on Angry Young Men; engages with “new man,”; plot summary of; search for female artistic vision in; stylizations of masculinity in; title change for; title’s source; women’s choices in
Sharpe, Jenny
Sillitoe, Alan: and Angry Young Men; new man in works of; Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Simmel, Georg
social-realism
Some Tame Gazelle (Pym)
Springhall, John
Stephen, Leslie
Storey, David
suburbanization: Larkin on; in Orwell’s Keep the Aspidistra Flying; suburban domesticity; suburban masculinity; suburban professionals; suburban respectability; suburban women; in Wain’s Hurry on Down
Suez Crisis of 1956
“Sunny Prestatyn” (Larkin)
Sweet Dove Died, The (Pym)
Sword of Honour Trilogy, The (Waugh)
Teddy Boys
Tennyson, Alfred
This Sporting Life (Storey)
“Toads” (Larkin)
Tom Brown’s Schooldays (Hughes)
Torgovnik, Mariana
“To the Sea” (Larkin)
“Triple Time” (Larkin)
Unsuitable Attachment, An (Pym); addresses changes in middle-class woman in postwar Britain; detached gentleman in; ending of; engages with “new man,”; on gentlemen and gentlewomen adapting to shifting urban landscape; the marriage in; as novel of manners; plot summary; posthumous publication of; rejection of; unsuitable relationships in; as unusual Pym novel; West Indian presence in
upper class: in Amis’s Lucky Jim; in Byatt’s The Shadow of the Sun; masculinity; Orwell on; in Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses; in Wain’s Hurry on Down; Wodehouse’s depictions of men; women
Upward, Edward
Valente, Joseph
“Vers de Societe” (Larkin)
Vile Bodies (Waugh)
Village Book, The (Williamson)
Wain, John: “Along the Tightrope,”; in Angry Young Men; Byatt rejects masculine form of; examining works with focus on gender; in the Movement; new man in works of; Orwell as pivotal link to; on post-imperial gentlemanliness; as professional; protagonists of; Pym’s An Unsuitable Attachment and; reads Amis’s Lucky Jim on the radio; read within discourse of imperial gentlemanliness; read within paradigm of class mobility; Zeitgeist novels of. See also Hurry on Down
“Wants” (Larkin)
Waugh, Evelyn; airplanes and automobiles in works of; anthropological turn in works of; Brideshead Revisited; in Bright Young People; on Catholic gentlemen; on cinema’s power; Decline and Fall; deterioration of imperial confidence as context of works of; distanced gentlemanly narrative voice in early works of; A Handful of Dust; on materialist and callow modern woman; on modernism; on new Englishman; Orwell contrasted with; Orwell’s Keep the Aspidistra Flying refers to; on professions for gentlemen; protracted disintegration of manliness in novels of; Put Out More Flags; Pym and; as satirist of upper-middle- to middle-class gentleman; The Sword of Honour Trilogy; Vile Bodies; Waugh in Abyssinia; on welfare state and those it produced; writes about classes other then his own. See also Scoop
Waugh in Abyssinia (Waugh)
Waves, The (Woolf)
“Wedding Wind” (Larkin)
welfare state; Angry Young Men and; James Bond shaped by; defined; as defining moment of new postwar state; discourse of motherhood and marriage institutionalized in; feminist critique of; imperial decline and creation of; Larkin on gender in context of; luck and safety net of; masculinity; “new hero” in literature and; the picaresque and; post-gentleman and turn to; postwar writers seen as advocates of; revival of hoary traditions simultaneous with establishment of; shift from imperial nation to; solidarity and sovereignty in tension in; Wain’s Hurry on Down and
Whitsun Weddings, The (Larkin)
“Whitsun Weddings, The” (Larkin)
“Wild Oats” (Larkin)
Williams, Raymond
Williamson, Henry
Wodehouse, P. G.
women: become Empire builders; in James Bond novels; bourgeois femininity; l’ecriture feminine; emotionalism attributed to; feminist critique of welfare state; housework for middle-class; in Larkin’s “Reason for Attendance,”; in Larkin’s “Sunny Prestatyn,”; as metaphor for the nation; middle-class; in Orwell’s Keep the Aspidistra Flying; post-gentleman defined against and through female protagonists; professional; self-renunciation attributed to; suburban; upper-class; in Wain’s Hurry on Down; Waugh on materialist and callow modern
women’s magazines
Woolf, Virginia: Angry Young Men contrasted with; anthropological turn in works of; and Byatt; and crisis in Modernism; deterioration of imperial confidence as context of works of; “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown,”; Mrs. Dalloway; Pym influenced by; The Waves
working class: in Angry Young Men; Arnold excludes; in Byatt’s The Shadow of the Sun; as dialectical antithesis of the gentleman; masculinity; middle-class self-restraint contrasted with; Orwell on; public school values for; in Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses; social-realist writers on; Teddy Boys; in Wain’s Hurry on Down
Zeitgeist novels