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Informationen zum Autor Arthur Aughey is Professor of Politics at the University of Ulster and Senior Fellow at the Centre for British Politics at the University of Hull Klappentext The term 'conversation' is one of today's jargon terms. This book explores in depth what conversation means in national terms. Its premise is that to be English is to participate in a conversation about the country's history, politics, culture and society. The conversation changes, of course, but there is also continuity which illustrates a distinct tradition. It is a conversation, the book argues, which requires the plural notion of these Englands rather than the singularity of this England. Englishness, then, is the tone, register and idiom of it subject matters, its anxieties and certainties, differences and commonalities. The book explores the English conversation through historical, political, literary and popular voices and tries to identify the character of contemporary Englishness. Zusammenfassung A conversation about what Enghlish national identity actually means. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Krishan Kumar: PrefaceSection one: Englishness in discourse and opinion1: Susan Condor, sense & sensibility: the conversational etiquette of english national self-identification2: John Curtice, is the English lion ready to roar?3: Paul Thomas, all white? Englishness, 'race' and ethnic identities4: Chris Bryant, towards a cosmopolitan england?Section two: Englishness in politics and institutions5: Stephen Ingle, conservatives and Englishness: A conversation between party and nation6: Matthew Beech, the left and Englishness7: Simon Lee, Gordon Brown and the negation of England8: Philip Norton, the Englishness of Westminster9: Colin Copus, Englishness and local government: Reflecting a nation's past or merely an administrative convenience? Section three: Englishness in history and imagination10: Julia Stapleton, faith, people & place: the English union in the writings of arthur mee and G.K. Chesterton11: Gary Day, the changing face of englishness: history, culture and character12: Patrick Parrinder, from Hardy to Larkin: Poets and novelists in national conversationChristine Berberich & Arthur Aughey, AfterwordReferences...
