The Revisions Of Englishness

Download or read book The Revisions of Englishness written by David Rogers and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diverse and often competing notions of "Englishness" have been critiqued by a variety of writers and critics who have become concerned about received visions of "Englishness" in the post-war period. An exciting and provocative collection of essays which registers the changes to Englishness since the 1950s, this book explores how Englishness has been revised for a variety of aesthetic and political purposes and makes a ground-breaking contribution to the contemporary debates in literary and cultural studies.