Englishness and National Culture

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Psychology Press, 1999 - Art - 243 pages

In 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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Contents

National desire
33
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
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