Literary Englands : Versions of 'Englishness' in Modern Writing
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0521061938
ISBN-13
9780521061933
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 15th, 2008
Print length
300 Pages
Weight
458 grams
Dimensions
15.40 x 22.80 x 2.20 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000Literary studies: from c 1900 -
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In our time the concept of 'Englishness' often evokes in writers a complex sense of loss, nostalgia and exile. Literary Englands explores the influence of nationality on writers including Edward Thomas, Forster and Lawrence, Leavis and George Sturt, Orwell and Evelyn Waugh, Betjeman, Larkin and Geoffrey Hill.
In our time 'Englishness' has become a theme for speculation rather than dogma: twentieth-century writers have found it an elusive and ambiguous concept, a cue for nostalgia or for a sense of exile and loss. Literary Englands meditates on the contemporary meanings of 'Englishness' and explores some of the ways in which a sense of nationality has informed and shaped the work of a range of writers including Edward Thomas, Forster and Lawrence, Leavis and George Sturt, Orwell and Evelyn Waugh, Betjeman, Larkin and Geoffrey Hill. Through close engagement with the language and thought of these writers David Gervais shows the extent to which they have been influenced by the consciousness of working within a long-established, complex and sophisticated literary tradition. In the process he elucidates a nostalgia which lies at the heart of our culture.
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