Acknowledgements
Abstract
摘要
Introduction
Chapter One Analysis of Howards End: High Imperialism and Metropolitan Englishness
High Imperialism and Metropolitan Perception
"Placelessness" in the Metropolis
Englishness and Pastoral Utopia
Chapter Two Analysis of Brideshead Revisited: Imperial Contraction and "Small England"
Imperial Contraction and the Country House
Brideshead: Et in Acadia Ego
Paradise Lost
Chapter Three Analysis of The Remains of the Day: Post-colonial Nostalgia and Englishness
Imperial Landscape and Simulacrum
Upstairs and Downstairs: Master and Butler
Conclusion
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