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 Literatures disciplinary logic-- 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 Literatures disciplinary logic.
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| Notes on Contributors |
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| Introduction |
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Part I The Politics of English Independence |
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1 Understanding the Post-British English Nation State |
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2 The Future of `the Global Kingdom': Post-Unionism, Post-Nationalism and the Politics of Voice, Loyalty, and Exit |
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3 `England Is the Country and the Country Is England': But What of the Politics? |
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Part II England in English Literature's Canon |
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4 Romantic Englishness: Periodical Writing and National Identity After the Napoleonic Wars |
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5 `Out-of-the-Way Asiatic Disease': Contagion, Malingering, and Sherlock's England |
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6 A. J. Cook, D. H. Lawrence, and Revolutionary England: Discourses and Performances of Region and Nation in 1926 |
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7 `England Am I...': Eugenics, Devolution, and Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts |
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103 | (13) |
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8 Orwell's England and Blair's Britain: Warm Beer and Cold War |
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116 | (14) |
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9 Anticipating the Neoliberal Nation: Philip Larkin and the Displacement of Englishness |
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130 | (17) |
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Part III England's Contemporary Literary Landscape |
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10 J. G. Ballard's Traumatised and Traumatising Englishness |
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147 | (15) |
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11 England, Devolution, and Fictional Kingdoms |
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162 | (13) |
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12 Black British Writing and Post-British England |
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175 | (13) |
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13 Devolution and Cultural Catch-Up: Decoupling England and its Literature from English Literature |
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188 | (15) |
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Part IV English Literature as British Ideology |
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14 English Literature as Ideology |
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15 The New Rise and Fall of English Literature |
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| Afterword |
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| Select Bibliography |
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| Index |
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Arthur Aughey, University of Hull, UK Anthony Barnett
Christine Berberich, University of Portsmouth, UK John Brannigan, University College Dublin, UK Hywel Dix, Bournemouth University, UK Simon Featherstone, De Montfort University, UK Michael Gardiner, University of Warwick, UK Gerry Hassan David Higgins, University of Leeds, UK Graham MacPhee, West Chester University, UK Willy Maley, University of Glasgow, UK John McLeod, University of Leeds, UK Pablo Mukherjee, University of Warwick, UK Andrew Mycock, University of Huddersfield, UK Claire Westall, University of York, UK Philip Tew, Brunel University, UK
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