The revision of Englishness
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Manchester and New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 194
Description: "A collection of essays which registers the changes to Englishness since the 1950s, The revision of Englishness explores how Englishness has been revised for a variety of aesthetic and political purposes. Bringing together established and new scholars in the field, this important collection engages with a number of genres - poetry, film, fiction - and embraces a range of contexts."--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: Notes on contributors; title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction: measuring Englishness. John McLeod; title: Part I Changing Englishness in the post-war years; title: 1 Modernity, Jewishness and 'being English'. Vic Seidler; title: 2 Queen's English. Alan Sinfield; title: 3 The miasma of Englishness at home and abroad in the 1950s. Elizabeth Masden; title: Part II Revising the myth; title: 4 An activity not an attribute: mobilising Englishness. James Wood; title: 5 The English and the European: the poetry of Geoffrey Hill. David Gervais.; title: 6 A case of red herrings: Englishness in the poetry of Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes. Antony Rowland.; title: 7 The love that dares not speak its name: Englishness and suburbia. Vesna Goldsworthy.; title: 8 'Dying of England': melancholic Englishness in Adam Thorpe's Still. Ingrid Gunby.; title: Part III New Englands; title: 9 Bhaji on the Beach: South Asian femininity at 'home' on the 'English' seaside. Bilkis Malek.; title: 10 The Black Album: Hanif Kureishi's revisions of Englishness. Bart Moore-Gilbert.; title: 11 Beyond revisions: Rushdie, newness, and the end of authenticity. Martin Corner.; title: Postscript: Englishness in transition: Swift, Faulkner, and an outsider's staunch belief. David Rogers.