Research Catalog

Title

Literature of an independent England : revisions of England, Englishness and English literature / edited by Claire Westall and Michael Gardiner.

Publication

Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gardiner, Michael, 1970-
• Westall, Claire

Description

xi, 253 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"This interdisciplinary collection is a first step in the process of dismantling the imperial and unionist dominance of the discipline of English Literature and building a literary history and national literature of England. The collection brings together some of the best known and most incisive commentators on England, Englishness and English Literature from political and literary fields in order to 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. The collection comprises fifteen essays, organised into four parts, moving from political discussions of the form of a devolved or independent England, through a consideration of England in canonical and contemporary literature, to an exploration of the role of the national in English Literature's disciplinary logic"--

Subjects

• Nationalism and literature > England > History
• National characteristics, English, in literature
• Postcolonialism > Great Britain > History
• English literature > History and criticism
• Political culture > Great Britain > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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-the-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 War / 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 -- Select Bibliography.

Call Number

JFD 13-5866

ISBN

• 9781137035233 (hardback)
• 1137035234 (hardback)

LCCN

• 2013018171
• 40022687303

OCLC

829739909

Title

Literature of an independent England : revisions of England, Englishness and English literature / edited by Claire Westall and Michael Gardiner.

Publisher

Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Gardiner, Michael, 1970- editor.

Westall, Claire, editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40022687303

Research Call Number

JFD 13-5866