The revision of Englishness

Herausgeber: Mcleod, John; Rogers, David

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Produktbeschreibung

An exciting and provocative collection of essays which registers the changes to 'Englishness' since the 1950s, 'The revisions of Englishness' explores how conventional ideas of 'Englishness' have been re-imagined in post-war fiction, poetry and film.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9780719069727
• ISBN-10: 0719069726
• Artikelnr.: 21338255

Autorenporträt

David Rogers is Head of the School of Humanities, Kingston University, London oh yes. John McLeod is Lecturer in English at the University of Leeds

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
Introduction: 'Measuring Englishness' - John McLeod
Part One: Changing Englishness in the post-war years
1. 'Modernity, Jewishness, and "Being English"' - Vic Seidler
2. 'Queen's English' - Alan Sinfield
3. 'The miasma of Englishness at home and abroad in the fifties' -
Elizabeth Maslen
Part Two: Revising the myth
4. 'An activity not an attribute: Mobilising Englishness' -James Wood
5. 'The English and the European: The poetry of Geoffrey Hill' - David
Gervais
6. 'A case of red herrings: Englishness in the poetry of Philip Larkin and
Ted Hughes - Antony Rowland
7. 'Love that dares not speak its name: Englishness and suburbia' - Vesna
Goldsworthy
8. '"Dying of England": Melancholic Englishness in Adam Thorpe's 'Still', -
Ingrid Gunby
Part Three: New Englands
9. ''Bhaji on the Beach': South Asian femininity at "home" on the "English"
seaside?' - Bilkis Malek
10. ''The Black Album': Hanif Kureishi's revisions of "Englishness"' - Bart
Moore-Gilbert
11. 'Beyond revisions: Rushdie, newness and the end of authenticity' -
Martin Corner
Postscript: 'English in transition: Swift, Faulkner and an outsider's
staunch belief' - David Rogers