Literary Englands : Versions of 'Englishness' in Modern Writing

Name: Literary Englands
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521061933
Price: 7650 KES
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ISBN: 9780521061933

by David Gervais

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0521061938

ISBN-13 9780521061933

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint 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 2000 Literary 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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