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After the Victorians: The Historical Turning Point in McEwan's On Chesil Beach

Mathews, Peter

Critique - Bolingbroke Society, 2012-01, Vol.53 (1), p.82-91 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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After the Victorians: The Historical Turning Point in McEwan's On Chesil Beach
Author: Mathews, Peter
Subjects: 1900-1999 ; 1960s ; Authors ; Eminent Victorians ; English Literature ; Fowles, John ; Historicism ; history ; Ian McEwan ; McEwan, Ian ; Nihilism ; novel ; On Chesil Beach ; Sexual Morality ; sexuality ; Strachey, Lytton ; The French Lieutenant's Woman ; the past ; turning point ; Twentieth Century ; Victorian culture
Is Part Of: Critique - Bolingbroke Society, 2012-01, Vol.53 (1), p.82-91
Description: This article examines the common view that Ian McEwan's novel On Chesil Beach is an affirmation of the sexual revolution of the 1960s. Instead, the roots of McEwan's ideas are traced back to the Victorian period, locating On Chesil Beach in a thematic tradition with a long pedigree in modern British literature. Through a critical engagement with McEwan's oeuvre, the author examines the moral implications that accompany the notion of a historical turning point.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0011-1619
ISSN: 1939-9138
EISSN: 1939-9138
DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2010.504974
Source: Taylor & Francis Social Science & Humanities and Science & Technology Library Database Model

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