Englishness and National Culture

Zusatztext '...a major contribution to the debate about Englishness! multiculturalism and devolution.' - - The European English Messenger Informationen zum Autor Antony Easthorpe Klappentext In this highly engaging book, Antony Easthope examines 'Englishness' as a form and a series of shared discourses. Discussing the subject of 'nation' - a growing area in literary and cultural studies - Easthope offers polemical arguments written in a lively and accessible style. Englishness and National Culture asserts a profound and unacknowledged continuity between the seventeenth century and today. It argues that contemporary journalists, historians, novelists, poets and comedians continue to speak through the voice of a long-standing empiricist tradition. Zusammenfassung Examines Englishness as a form and series of shared discourses, exerting a continuity between the 17th century and today. It argues that today's writers, historians and comedians continue to use the voice of the empiricist tradition. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures, Preface, PART I Nation, PART II The English tradition, PART III Englishness today, Bibliography, Index

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Easthope, Antony Easthope, Easthope Antony, Antony Easthorpe
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.12.1998
• EAN: 9780415196871
• ISBN: 978-0-415-19687-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik