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Literature of an Independent England

Revisions of England, Englishness and English Literature

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  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Claire Westall

    1. Department of English and Related Literature, University of York, UK

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  2. Michael Gardiner

    1. Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Claire Westall, Michael Gardiner
      Pages 1-11

  4. England in English Literature’s Canon

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61
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    2. Romantic Englishness: Periodical Writing and National Identity After the Napoleonic Wars

      • David Higgins
      Pages 63-76

    3. ‘Out-of-the-Way Asiatic Disease’: Contagion, Malingering, and Sherlock’s England

      • Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee
      Pages 77-90

    4. A. J. Cook, D. H. Lawrence, and Revolutionary England: Discourses and Performances of Region and Nation in 1926

      • Simon Featherstone
      Pages 91-102

    5. ‘England Am I … ’: Eugenics, Devolution, and Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

      • John Brannigan
      Pages 103-115

    6. Orwell’s England and Blair’s Britain: Warm Beer and Cold War

      • Willy Maley
      Pages 116-129

    7. Anticipating the Neoliberal Nation: Philip Larkin and the Displacement of Englishness

      • Graham MacPhee
      Pages 130-144

  5. England’s Contemporary Literary Landscape

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145
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    2. J. G. Ballard’s Traumatised and Traumatising Englishness

      • Philip Tew
      Pages 147-161

    3. England, Devolution, and Fictional Kingdoms

      • Christine Berberich
      Pages 162-174

    4. Black British Writing and Post-British England

      • John McLeod
      Pages 175-187

    5. Devolution and Cultural Catch-Up: Decoupling England and its Literature from English Literature

      • Hywel Dix
      Pages 188-199

  6. English Literature as British Ideology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 201-201
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    2. English Literature as Ideology

      • Michael Gardiner
      Pages 203-217
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About this book

Some of the most incisive writers on the subject 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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of English and Related Literature, University of York, UK

    Claire Westall

  • Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK

    Michael Gardiner

About the editors

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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