C. P. Snow, Time of Hope

Nicolas Tredell (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Gina Lyle (University of Glasgow), Graham MacPhee (University of Manchester), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1949

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

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C. P. Snow's

Time of Hope

(1949) is a long, absorbing

Bildungsroman

in which Lewis Eliot, the first-person narrator, recounts his life from 1914, when he is almost nine years old, to 1933, when he is twenty-eight. It was originally the third of Snow's

Strangers and Brothers

series of novels to be published, but in the sequence as rearranged by Snow for the 1972 omnibus edition, it stands first. The novel opens on a June evening in 1914 when “a sense of overwhelming dread” (6) seizes Eliot as he returns to his home in the suburbs of a provincial town after a day spent playing with other boys. Eliot's apprehensive homecomings will be a recurrent motif of the “Strangers and Brothers” series. In this case, his apprehension proves justified: his amiable, good-natured, ineffectual…

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Citation: Tredell, Nicolas. "Time of Hope". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 03 March 2007 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=19407, accessed 24 April 2024.]

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