Englishness and National CultureIn this highly engaging book, Antony Easthope examines 'Englishness' as a form and a series of shared discourses. Discussing the subject of 'nation' - a growing area in literary and cultural studies - Easthope offers polemical arguments written in a lively and accessible style. Englishness and National Culture asserts a profound and unacknowledged continuity between the seventeenth century and today. It argues that contemporary journalists, historians, novelists, poets and comedians continue to speak through the voice of a long-standing empiricist tradition. |
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... writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Easthope, Antony. Englishness and ...
... writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Easthope, Antony. Englishness and ...
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... The discourse of history-writing 1 35 7 English tragedy, English comedy 153 8 Contemporary English poetry 1 77 9 Nation: identity and difference 200 Bibliography 230 Index 241 FIGURES 1 . 1 Steve Bell cartoon, 'Dr Tate's Patent.
... The discourse of history-writing 1 35 7 English tragedy, English comedy 153 8 Contemporary English poetry 1 77 9 Nation: identity and difference 200 Bibliography 230 Index 241 FIGURES 1 . 1 Steve Bell cartoon, 'Dr Tate's Patent.
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... writing from 1600: my approach has been to establish a sense of the empiricist tradition from the seventeenth ... writers and others) think they are speaking in their own voices, in fact the discourse of an empiricist tradition is ...
... writing from 1600: my approach has been to establish a sense of the empiricist tradition from the seventeenth ... writers and others) think they are speaking in their own voices, in fact the discourse of an empiricist tradition is ...
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... Writing and National Identity, edited by Tracey Hill and William Hughes (Bath: Sulis Press, 1995); in 'The Question of National Culture: Thinking about Englishness' in Moving the Borders, edited by Marialuisa Bignami and Caroline Patey ...
... Writing and National Identity, edited by Tracey Hill and William Hughes (Bath: Sulis Press, 1995); in 'The Question of National Culture: Thinking about Englishness' in Moving the Borders, edited by Marialuisa Bignami and Caroline Patey ...
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... writing', while opposed to this the larger, more impersonal groupings constructed by modernity are imaginary, false, unreal. In the pre-national culture, the lost organic community where everyone knows everyone else, people are ...
... writing', while opposed to this the larger, more impersonal groupings constructed by modernity are imaginary, false, unreal. In the pre-national culture, the lost organic community where everyone knows everyone else, people are ...
Contents
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National desire | 55 |
Empiricism in English philosophy | 61 |
An empiricist tradition | 87 |
The discourse of literary journalism | 117 |
The discourse of historywriting | 135 |
English tragedy English comedy | 153 |
Contemporary English poetry | 177 |
identity and difference | 200 |
Bibliography | 230 |
Index | 241 |
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