Literary Englands: Versions of 'Englishness' in Modern WritingCambridge University Press, 21.10.1993 - 280 Seiten In our time TEnglishnesst has become a theme for speculation rather than dogma; twentieth-century writers have found it an elusive and ambivalent concept, a cue for nostalgia or for a sense of exile and loss. Literary Englands meditates on the contemporary meanings of TEnglishnesst 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. |
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An England of holes and corners | 28 |
exiles in the homeland | 67 |
George Sturt and village England | 102 |
F R Leavis and T S Eliot | 133 |
Waugh and Orwell | 156 |
Larkin Betjeman and the aftermath of England | 185 |
Geoffrey Hill and the floating of nostalgia | 220 |
A homemade past | 270 |
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