The Nation in British Literature and Culture

Herausgeber: Murphy, Andrew

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a comprehensive account of Britain as a national and cultural formation, exploring the relationships among the ethnic elements that were combined to create it. Shifting understandings of British identity are tracked and contemporary challenges to the ongoing survival of Britishness and British literature and culture are explored.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Themes in British Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 393
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 158mm x 237mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9781009378857
• ISBN-10: 1009378856
• Artikelnr.: 68101990

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Origins: 1. What is Britain? Andrew Murphy
2. Wales in Britain Helen Fulton
3. Scotland in Britain Gerard Carruthers
4. Ireland in Britain Jim Smyth
5. England in Britain Krishan Kumar
Part II. Writing the Nation: 6. Cultural borrowings Edward Wilson-Lee
7. Tradition and transformation in literature Neil Rhodes
8. Milton and the remaking of the Nation in seventeenth-century England David Loewenstein
Part III. Revolutions and Empires: 9. The American revolution Jerome Tharaud
10. The French revolution David Duff
11. 'And what should they know of England who only England know?' Ania Loomba
12. Rather unpleasant stories: popular fictions of Empire Matthew P. M. Kerr
13. Sun-drowned streets and wasted lives: imperial decline and the colonial Novel Praseeda Gopinath
Part IV. Making the Modern Nation: 14. 'It's being so cheerful that keeps me going': the nation in the second world war Gill Plain
15. The new British J. Dillon Brown
16. Censorship Celia Marshik
17. 'Wake up the Nation': modern pop and the quest for a New England Ben Winsworth
18. Queer Nation Brian Lewis
Part V. Futures: 19. The future of the Union: a political science perspective Etain Tannam
20. What is British Literature now? Kristian Shaw
21. Borderline Britain Andrew Murphy.