Acknowledgments
The Mission of Literature: Modern Novels and Diplomacy
Allan Hepburn, McGill University
Part One: Diplomatic Experience
1. Making a Song and Dance of It: Staging Diplomacy in William Gerhardi’s Early Novels
Claire Davison, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
2. The League of Nations as Seen by Albert Cohen: A User’s Guide to Social Magic
Maxime Decout, Université de Lille
3. Modern Negotiations: Harold Nicolson’s Peacemaking 1919 and Public Faces
Caroline Z. Krzakowski, Northern Michigan University
Part Two: Novels and Diplomacy
4. Diplomatic Dispatch Style: Towards a New Aesthetic of the Novel
Isabelle Daunais, McGill University
5. Conrad’s Politics of Idealism: Diplomacy without Diplomats
Stephen Ross, University of Victoria
6. André Gide and the Art of Evasion
Michel Biron, McGill University
Part Three: Documents
7. Proust’s Epistolary Diplomacy: Antoine Bibesco, René Peter, and “Salaïsme”
François Proulx, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
8. The Art of Conversation: Nancy Mitford, France, and Cultural Diplomacy
Allan Hepburn, McGill University
Part Four: Foreign Affairs
9. Action, Diplomacy, Art: André Malraux and Graham Greene
Robert L. Caserio, Pennsylvania State University
10. Mythography and Diplomacy in Works by Ian Fleming and John le Carré
Maxime Prévost, University of Ottawa
11. Lawrence Durrell: Diplomacy as Farce
Maria DiBattista, Princeton University
Works Cited
Contributors
Index