Beryl Bainbridge, Master Georgie

Markus Hiltl (Université de Paris IV Sorbonne)

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 1998

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

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Master Georgie

by Beryl Bainbridge was published in 1998. It was short listed for the Booker Prize and belongs to the author's series of historical novels which includes, among others,

The Birthday Boys

(1991) and

According to Queeney

(2001). The novel tells the fictitious adventure of a group of Liverpudlians during the Crimean War (1853-1856).

The novel is highly structured and consists of six self-contained chapters which are told by three different narrators. This change of narrator is then emphasized by the use of different language levels, shifting intertextual allusions and differing viewpoints. The chapters are called “plates” and photography is a recurrent motif, reflecting two main themes in the story: first, that memory is like a photograph, keeping the most important

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Citation: Hiltl, Markus. "Master Georgie". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 19 May 2009 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=3681, accessed 25 April 2024.]

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