Jonathan Bolton

The Blunt Affair

Official secrecy and treason in literature, television and film, 1980-89

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Produktbeschreibung

The Blunt Affair examines a range of literary and filmic texts on the Cambridge spies and related topics - including British intelligence's betrayal of Alan Turing, the Profumo Affair and the Portland spy case - in the context of the culture and politics of the late Cold War.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 475g
• ISBN-13: 9781526148469
• ISBN-10: 1526148463
• Artikelnr.: 59956459

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Bolton is Hollifield Professor of English Literature at Auburn University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the Blunt Affair and its impact on literature, television and
film in the 1980s 1 Tradition and treason in Dennis Potter's Blade on the
Feather 2 School for scandal: Julian Mitchell's Another Country 3
Allegories of prudence: Alan Bennett's Single Spies 4 Tender comrades:
friendship and treason in Robin Chapman's One of Us and Blunt - The Fourth
Man 5 'Men of the middle ground': John le Carré's A Perfect Spy and the
treachery of Kim Philby 6 The 'unsavoury' world of espionage: Tom
Stoppard's The Dog It Was That Died 7 Secrecy, the State and the citizen:
Hugh Whitemore's Pack of Lies, Concealed Enemies and Breaking the Code 8
Gentlemen's agreement: Scandal, the Profumo Affair and the end of the Cold
War Conclusion: 'getting at the darkness': poststructuralism and naturalism
in literature, television and film in the 1980s Index