Michael Gardiner

The Cultural Roots of British Devolution

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a provocative argument that suggests that cultural devolution preceded and indeed forced political change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 331g
• ISBN-13: 9780748619214
• ISBN-10: 0748619216
• Artikelnr.: 21984700

Autorenporträt

Michael Gardiner is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. As well as creative fiction and comparative cultural history and world literature, his books include The Cultural Roots of British Devolution (EUP, 2004), Modern Scottish Culture (2005), and From Trocchi to Trainspotting; Scottish Literary Theory Since 1960 (2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. When was British Culture?
2. The First Scottish Renaissance
3. The Question of Democratic Education
4. Before Theory
5. EnglandWithout the 'Cricket Test'
6. Can the Sub-Briton Speak?
7. Reading the Empire State.