Post-War British Literature and the "End of Empire"
- Submitting institution
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The University of Kent
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 13547
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1057/978-1-137-54014-0
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9781137540133
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Post-War British Literature and the “End of Empire” is a longer-form output that is the first comprehensive, single-authored study of literary responses to post-war decolonisation by British colonial servant and settler writers. At approximately 80,000 words long, this book represents the culmination of around 5 years of research. Writing the book involved establishing the first corpus of primary texts by post-war British writers dealing with decolonisation, “Americanisation”, and immigration, many of which are currently out-of-print. Accessing copies of these texts required visits to the British Library in London and the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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