Englishness and National Culture

Englishness and National Culture
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 254
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ISBN-10 : 9781134643066
ISBN-13 : 1134643063
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis Englishness and National Culture by : Antony Easthorpe

In this highly engaging book, Antony Easthope examines 'Englishness' as a form and a series of shared discourses. Discussing the subject of 'nation' - a growing area in literary and cultural studies - Easthope offers polemical arguments written in a lively and accessible style. Englishness and National Culture asserts a profound and unacknowledged continuity between the seventeenth century and today. It argues that contemporary journalists, historians, novelists, poets and comedians continue to speak through the voice of a long-standing empiricist tradition.

Englishness and National Culture

Englishness and National Culture
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 9781134643059
ISBN-13 : 1134643055
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis Englishness and National Culture by : Antony Easthorpe

In this highly engaging book, Antony Easthope examines 'Englishness' as a form and a series of shared discourses. Discussing the subject of 'nation' - a growing area in literary and cultural studies - Easthope offers polemical arguments written in a lively and accessible style. Englishness and National Culture asserts a profound and unacknowledged continuity between the seventeenth century and today. It argues that contemporary journalists, historians, novelists, poets and comedians continue to speak through the voice of a long-standing empiricist tradition.

The Idea of Englishness

The Idea of Englishness
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Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9781472461957
ISBN-13 : 1472461959
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis The Idea of Englishness by : Professor Krishan Kumar

Ideas of Englishness, and of the English nation, have become a matter of renewed interest in recent years as a result of threats to the integrity of the United Kingdom and the perceived rise of that unusual thing, English nationalism. Interrogating the idea of an English nation, and of how that might compare with other concepts of nationhood, this book’s wide-ranging, comparative and historical approach to understanding the particular nature of Englishness and English national identity, will appeal to scholars of sociology, cultural studies and history with interests in English and British national identity and debates about England’s future place in the United Kingdom.

A Shrinking Island

A Shrinking Island
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 303
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ISBN-10 : 9781400825745
ISBN-13 : 1400825741
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis A Shrinking Island by : Joshua Esty

This book describes a major literary culture caught in the act of becoming minor. In 1939, Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary, "Civilisation has shrunk." Her words captured not only the onset of World War II, but also a longer-term reversal of national fortune. The first comprehensive account of modernism and imperialism in England, A Shrinking Island tracks the joint eclipse of modernist aesthetics and British power from the literary experiments of the 1930s through the rise of cultural studies in the 1950s. Jed Esty explores the effects of declining empire on modernist form--and on the very meaning of Englishness. He ranges from canonical figures (T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf) to influential midcentury intellectuals (J. M. Keynes and J.R.R. Tolkien), from cultural studies pioneers (Raymond Williams and E. P. Thompson) to postwar migrant writers (George Lamming and Doris Lessing). Focusing on writing that converts the potential energy of the contracting British state into the language of insular integrity, he argues that an anthropological ethos of cultural holism came home to roost in late-imperial England. Esty's interpretation challenges popular myths about the death of English literature. It portrays the survivors of the modernist generation not as aesthetic dinosaurs, but as participants in the transition from empire to welfare state, from metropolitan art to national culture. Mixing literary criticism with postcolonial theory, his account of London modernism's end-stages and after-lives provides a fresh take on major works while redrawing the lines between modernism and postmodernism.

Englishness

Englishness
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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : 9780748632541
ISBN-13 : 0748632549
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Englishness by : Simon Featherstone

This book examines the conflicts, dilemmas and contradictions that marked Englishness as the nation changed from an imperial power to a postcolonial state. The chapters deal with travel writing, popular song, music hall and variety theatre, dances, elocution lessons, cricket and football, and national festivals, as well as literature and film. 'High' and 'popular' cultures are brought together in dialogue, and the diversity as well as the problematic nature of English identity is emphasised. The case studies are linked by their interests in different kinds of performances of being English, and by a particular focus upon the voice and the body as key sites for the struggles of modern England. The book is a lively contribution to current interdisciplinary debates about Englishness, national cultures and postcolonial identities. It is relevant to undergraduate students of literature, drama, film, politics and sociology, and will also appeal to a general readership.

English Journeys

English Journeys
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Publisher : Cambria Press
Total Pages : 380
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ISBN-10 : 9781621968245
ISBN-13 : 1621968243
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

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The Making of English National Identity

The Making of English National Identity
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 390
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ISBN-10 : 0521777364
ISBN-13 : 9780521777360
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis The Making of English National Identity by : Krishan Kumar

Why is English national identity so enigmatic and so elusive? Why, unlike the Scots, Welsh, Irish and most of continental Europe, do the English find it so difficult to say who they are? The Making of English National Identity, first published in 2003, is a fascinating exploration of Englishness and what it means to be English. Drawing on historical, sociological and literary theory, Krishan Kumar examines the rise of English nationalism and issues of race and ethnicity from earliest times to the present day. He argues that the long history of the English as an imperial people has, as with other imperial people like the Russians and the Austrians, developed a sense of missionary nationalism which in the interests of unity and empire has necessitated the repression of ordinary expressions of nationalism. Professor Kumar's lively and provocative approach challenges readers to reconsider their pre-conceptions about national identity and who the English really are.

New Model Island

New Model Island
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Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Total Pages : 136
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ISBN-10 : 9781912248636
ISBN-13 : 1912248638
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis New Model Island by : Alex Niven

A study of place, identity, music, politics and regionalism which calls for a radical restructuring of the British Isles. In the early twenty-first century, "Englishness" suddenly became a hot topic. A rash of art exhibitions, pop albums and coffee table books arrived on the scene, all desperate to recover England’s lost national soul. But when we sweep away the patriotic stereotypes, we begin to see that England is a country that does not — and perhaps should not — exist in any essential sense. In this provocative text combining polemic and memoir, Alex Niven argues that the map of the British Isles should be torn apart completely as we look towards a time of radical political reform. Rejecting outdated nationalisms, Niven argues for a renovated model of culture and governance for the islands — a fluid, dynamic version of regionalism preparing the way for a new "dream archipelago".

English National Identity and Football Fan Culture

English National Identity and Football Fan Culture
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Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages : 209
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ISBN-10 : 9781472423283
ISBN-13 : 1472423283
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis English National Identity and Football Fan Culture by : Dr Tom Gibbons

Examining football fans’ expressions of Englishness in public houses and online spaces, the author discusses the effects of globalisation, European integration and UK devolution on English society, revealing that the use of the St George’s Cross does not signal the emergence of a specifically ‘English’ national consciousness, but in fact masks a more complex, multi-layered process of national identity construction. A detailed and grounded study of identity, nationalism and globalisation amongst football fans, English National Identity and Football Fan Culture will appeal to scholars and students of politics, sociology and anthropology with interests in ethnography, the sociology of sport, fan cultures, globalisation and contemporary national identities.

English Identity and Political Culture in the Fourteenth Century

English Identity and Political Culture in the Fourteenth Century
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 371
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ISBN-10 : 9781107007260
ISBN-13 : 1107007267
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis English Identity and Political Culture in the Fourteenth Century by : Andrea Ruddick

A study of the nature of national sentiment in fourteenth-century England, in its political and constitutional context.