Literature of an Independent England

Revisions of England, Englishness and English Literature
2013. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-03523-3
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 253 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4385 g

Some of the most incisive writers on the subject rethink the relationship between Britain, England and English literary culture. It is premised on the importance of devolution, the uncertainty of the British union, the place of English Literature within the union, and the need for England to become a self-determining literary nation.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Westall, C.

Gardiner, M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Claire Westall and Michael Gardiner PART I: THE POLITICS OF ENGLISH INDEPENDENCE 1. Understanding the Post-British English Nation-State; Andrew Mycock 2. The Future of 'the Global Kingdom': Post-Unionism, Post-Nationalism and the Politics of Voice, Loyalty and Exit; Gerry Hassan 3. 'England is the country and the country is England': But what of the politics?; Arthur Aughey PART II: ENGLAND IN ENGLISH LITERATURE'S CANON 4. Romantic Englishness: Periodical Writing and National Identity after the Napoleonic Wars; David Higgins 5. 'Out-of way Asiatic disease': Contagion, Malingering and Sherlock's England; Pablo Mukherjee 6. A. J. Cook, D. H. Lawrence and Revolutionary England: Discourses and Performances of Region and Nation in 1926; Simon Featherstone 7. 'England am I …': Eugenics, Devolution, and Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts; John Brannigan 8. Orwell's England and Blair's Britain: Warm Beer and Cold Wars; Willy Maley 9. Anticipating the Neoliberal Nation: Philip Larkin and the Displacement of Englishness; Graham MacPhee PART III: ENGLAND'S CONTEMPORARY LITERARY LANDSCAPE 10. J.G. Ballard's Traumatised and Traumatising Englishness; Philip Tew 11. England, Devolution and Fictional Kingdoms; Christine Berberich 12. Black English Writing and Post-British England; John McLeod 13. Devolution and Cultural Catch-Up: Decoupling England and its Literature from English Literature; Hywel Dix PART IV: ENGLISH LITERATURE AS BRITISH IDEOLOGY 14. English Literature as Ideology; Michael Gardiner 15. The New Rise and Fall of English Literature; Claire Westall Afterword; Anthony Barnett Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Arthur Aughey, University of Hull, UK
Anthony Barnett

Christine Berberich, University of Portsmouth, UK
John Brannigan, University College Dublin, UK
Hywel Dix, Bournemouth University, UK
Simon Featherstone, De Montfort University, UK
Michael Gardiner, University of Warwick, UK
Gerry Hassan
David Higgins, University of Leeds, UK
Graham MacPhee, West Chester University, UK
Willy Maley, University of Glasgow, UK
John McLeod, University of Leeds, UK
Pablo Mukherjee, University of Warwick, UK
Andrew Mycock, University of Huddersfield, UK
Claire Westall, University of York, UK
Philip Tew, Brunel University, UK