The Role of espionage and national identity in British spy novels

INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................................... 3

Main Part 1. ESPIONAGE AS A MIRROR OF BRITISH NATIONAL IDENTITY IN POST-WAR FICTION....................................................................................................................................... 7

1.1. The Gentleman Spy and Imperial Decline..................................................................................... 7

1.2. Cold War Anxieties and the Shifting British Psyche.......................................................... 10

Main Part 2. CONTEMPORARY RECONFIGURATIONS OF BRITISHNESS AND ESPIONAGE IN THE 21ST CENTURY NOVEL........................................................... 13

2.1. Multiculturalism and the Redefinition of British Agents................................................. 13

2.2. Global Threats and the Erosion of National Borders....................................................... 16

CONCLUSIONS..................................................................................................................................................... 19

REFERENCES........................................................................................................................................................ 20