TY  - GEN
A1  - Eckstein, Lars
T1  - Saturday on Dover Beach : Ian McEwan, Matthew Arnold, and post-9/11 melancholia
N2  - This essay revisits Ian McEwan’s extremely successful novel Saturday, and interrogates its exemplary assessment of the British cultural climate after 9/11. The particular focus is on McEwan’s extensive recourse to the writings of Matthew Arnold, whose melancholy outlook on culture and anarchy McEwan basically translates into the 21st century without much ideological fraction. This relapse into Victorian liberal humanism as consolation for a Western world besieged by the contingencies of terrorism is extremely problematic. Not only does it wilfully ignore the transcultural realities of modern Britain, it also promotes an ahistorical and apolitical mode of critical inquiry which may be called reductive at best in view of the global challenges that the novel addresses.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 82 
Y1  - 2012
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/5716
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-59228
ER  -