Screen LibraryThe revision of Englishness
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Manchester University Press Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave,
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| Publisher Address: | Manchester New York New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2004. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | x, 194 p.: ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0719069726 (hardback) 9780719069727 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | C955 |
| CLC: | C955.561.1 |
| Call Number: | C955.561.1/R454 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Modernity, Jewishness and 'being English' / Vic Seidler -- Queen's English / Alan Sinfield -- The miasma of Englishness at home and abroad in the 1950s / Elizabeth Maslen -- An activity not an attribute : mobilising Englishness / James Wood -- The English and the European : the poetry of Geoffrey Hill / David Gervais -- A case of red herrings : Englishness in the poetry of Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes / Antony Rowland -- The love that dares not speak its name : Englishness and suburbia / Vesna Goldsworthy -- 'Dying of England' : melancholic Englishness in Adam Thorpe's Still / Ingrid Gunby -- Bhaji on the beach : South Asian femininity at 'home' on the 'English' seaside / Bilkis Malek -- The Black album : Hani Kureishi's revisions of 'Englishness' / Bart Moore-Gilbert -- Beyond revisions : Rushdie, newness and the end of authenticity / Martin Corner -- Postscript : Englishness in transition : Swift, Faulkner and an outsider's staunch belief / David Rogers. |