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The Public on the Public

The British Public as Trust, Reflexivity and Political Foreclosure

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  • © 2014

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  1. Claire Westall

    1. University of York, UK

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  2. Michael Gardiner

    1. University of Warwick, UK

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction: We Are Not ‘the Public’

    • Claire Westall, Michael Gardiner
    Pages 1-12

  3. The Public as Financial Trust

    • Claire Westall, Michael Gardiner
    Pages 13-31

  4. The Public as Cultural Commonwealth

    • Claire Westall, Michael Gardiner
    Pages 32-54

  5. Public Participation as Debt Demand

    • Claire Westall, Michael Gardiner
    Pages 55-76

  6. Public Reflexivity as Political Foreclosure

    • Claire Westall, Michael Gardiner
    Pages 78-103

  7. The Arts of Public Value

    • Claire Westall, Michael Gardiner
    Pages 104-119

  8. Coda: On Not Saving ‘the Public’

    • Claire Westall, Michael Gardiner
    Pages 121-121

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 125-144
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About this book

In Britain, the resistance to popular determination allowed by the financial construct of the public has been so successful that this term, public, must be re-read as politically paralyzing. The problem, our problem, is the public - which we are so often told will bring us together and provide for us - and it is this we must move beyond.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of York, UK

    Claire Westall

  • University of Warwick, UK

    Michael Gardiner

About the authors

Claire Westall is Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, UK. Previous works include Literature of an Independent England: Revisions of England, Englishness and English Literature (2013) edited with Michael Gardiner, and Cross-Gendered Voices: Appropriating, Resisting, Embracing (2012), edited with Rina Kim.
 
Michael Gardiner is Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. His previous books include The Cultural Roots of British Devolution (2004), At the Edge of Empire (2008), The Return of England in English Literature (2012), and The Constitution of English Literature (2013).

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