Why have so many diplomats been writers? Why have so many writers served as diplomats? This book provides some fascinating insights into the connections between literature and diplomacy.

Edited by Isabelle Daunais and Allan Hepburn

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