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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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 |
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