Englishness and national culture / Anthony Easthope.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Easthope, Antony.

Easthope a Staff, Corporate Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, English.

England--Civilization.

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Preface; Nation; Nation, identity, discourse; National desire; The English tradition; Empiricism in English philosophy; An empiricist tradition; Englishness today; The discourse of literary journalism; The discourse of history-writing; English tragedy, English comedy; Contemporary English poetry; Nation: identity and difference; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-64305-5

1-134-64306-3

0-203-20913-3

1-280-19366-2

0-203-28893-9

9780203209134

OCLC:

560133532