Passages of Arms
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4370037 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Penny Fielding (0000-0002-8004-0648, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 163 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 34-50 |
| Publication date | 2023-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Representations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-6018 • E-ISSN: 1533-855X |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/rep.2023.163.3.34 |
| OpenAlex | W4385819312 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
Research Article| August 01 2023 Passages of Arms: Postwar Fictions of Espionage Penny Fielding Penny Fielding PENNY FIELDING is Grierson Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Her books include Writing and Orality, Scotland and the Fictions of Geography and (with Andrew Taylor) Literature in Transition: The 1880s. She is General Editor of the New Edinburgh Edition of Robert Louis Stevenson. Codirector of the Edinburgh Network for Studies in Secrecy, she is currently writing a book on fiction and espionage in Scotland from Sir Walter Scott to Muriel Spark. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar [email protected] Representations (2023) 163 (1): 34-50. https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2023.163.3.34 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Penny Fielding; Passages of Arms: Postwar Fictions of Espionage. Representations 1 August 2023; 163 (1): 34-50. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2023.163.3.34 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRepresentations Search The spy novel-unlike its cousin the detective novel-takes its point of departure from a political context, offering a fictionalized narrative to real-world conflicts between nation states or other political entities. But although they deal in political history, spy novels are not the same as the Lukácsian historical novel, narrated from a self-conscious present that can assess the importance of world-historical changes in the past. Rather, they act as uneasy proxies to history-narratives that have a synecdochic relationship to historical events but must project hypothetical renditions of their secret underside. What happens when this proxy generic form meets proxy history in the form of the regional conflicts of the early Cold War? These wars themselves resist easy classification, because the Cold War was both a product of a postwar peace and an instigator of further wars.1 Its proxy wars-Korea, Vietnam-existed, in Mary Dudziak’s phrasing, in a temporality “in which war... You do not currently have access to this content
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |