{"product_id":"reading-espionage-fiction-narrative-conflict-and-commitment-from-world-war-i-to-the-contemporary-era-9781399520799","title":"Reading Espionage Fiction: Narrative, Conflict and Commitment from World War I to the Contemporary Era","description":"\u003ci\u003eReading Espionage Fiction: Narrative, Conflict and Commitment from World War I to the Contemporary Era\u003c\/i\u003e probes the ways in which the struggles and loyalties of political modernity have been portrayed in the espionage story over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Reading works by authors such as Somerset Maugham, Helen MacInnes, John le Carr?, Sam E. Greenlee and Gerald Seymour as popular literature deserving of sustained attention, this book shows how these narratives have both created a modern genre and, at the same time, sought an escape from its limitations. Martin Griffin takes up the importance of plot and character and argues that, in this branch of fiction, the personal has always and ever been political.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartin Griffin is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Tennessee. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eAshes of the Mind: War and Memory in Northern Literature, 1865-1900\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), co-author of \u003ci\u003eNarrative, Identity, and the Map of Cultural Policy: Once Upon a Time in a Globalized World\u003c\/i\u003e with Constance DeVereaux (2013), and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eStories of Nation: Fictions, Politics, and the American Experience\u003c\/i\u003e with Christopher Hebert (2017).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50919331954962,"sku":"9781399520799","price":130.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8fadc1fa-efba-4d72-87f5-79b005b6d999.jpg?v=1738890386","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/reading-espionage-fiction-narrative-conflict-and-commitment-from-world-war-i-to-the-contemporary-era-9781399520799","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}