1st Edition

Englishness and National Culture

By Antony Easthorpe Copyright 1999
254 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
List of figures, Preface, PART I Nation, PART II The English tradition, PART III Englishness today, Bibliography, Index

Biography

Antony Easthorpe

'...a major contribution to the debate about Englishness, multiculturalism and devolution.' - - The European English Messenger