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Englishness and National Culture
Author(s): Antony Easthope (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 10 Dec. 1998
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 254 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415196884
- ISBN-13: 9780415196888
Book Description
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.
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Review
‘…a major contribution to the debate about Englishness, multiculturalism and devolution.’ – – The European English Messenger
About the Author
Antony Easthorpe
