Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Introduction 3
6. PART ONE: Troubles in Ireland
7. CHAPTER ONE. Iris Murdoch's The Red and the Green 23
8. CHAPTER TWO. Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September and J. G. Farrell's Troubles 40
9. CHAPTER THREE. Northern Ireland in Four Contemporary Novels 63
10. PART TWO: Losing Confidence: Spies and Other Aliens
11. CHAPTER FOUR. Philby and His Fictions 87
12. CHAPTER FIVE. Iris Murdoch's Nuns and Soldiers 116
13. PART THREE: Apocalypse
14. CHAPTER SIX. Paul Scott's The Raj Quartet 135
15. CHAPTER SEVEN. Doris Lessing's Children of Violence 157
16. CHAPTER EIGHT. Anthony Burgess's The End of the World News 175
17. Afterword 195
18. Bibliography 197
19. Index 207