These Englands (eBook, PDF)

A conversation on national identity
Redaktion: Aughey, Arthur

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The term 'conversation' is one of today's jargon terms. This book explores in depth what conversation means in national terms. Its premise is that to be English is to participate in a conversation about the country's history, politics, culture and society. The conversation changes, of course, but there is also continuity which illustrates a distinct tradition. It is a conversation, the book argues, which requires the plural notion of these Englands rather than the singularity of this England. Englishness, then, is the tone, register and idiom of it subject matters, its anxieties and certainties, differences and commonalities. The book explores the English conversation through historical, political, literary and popular voices and tries to identify the character of contemporary Englishness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526142276
• Artikelnr.: 60364131

Autorenporträt

Arthur Aughey is Professor of Politics at the University of Ulster, Jordanstown. Christine Berberich is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth.

Inhaltsangabe

Krishan Kumar: Preface Section one: Englishness in discourse and opinion 1: Susan Condor
sense & sensibility: the conversational etiquette of english national self-identification 2: John Curtice
is the English lion ready to roar? 3: Paul Thomas
all white? Englishness
'race' and ethnic identities 4: Chris Bryant
towards a cosmopolitan england? Section two: Englishness in politics and institutions 5: Stephen Ingle
conservatives and Englishness: A conversation between party and nation 6: Matthew Beech
the left and Englishness 7: Simon Lee
Gordon Brown and the negation of England 8: Philip Norton
the Englishness of Westminster 9: Colin Copus
Englishness and local government: Reflecting a nation's past or merely an administrative convenience? Section three: Englishness in history and imagination 10: Julia Stapleton
faith
people & place: the English union in the writings of arthur mee and G.K. Chesterton 11: Gary Day
the changing face of englishness: history
culture and character 12: Patrick Parrinder
from Hardy to Larkin: Poets and novelists in national conversation Christine Berberich & Arthur Aughey
Afterword References