Being English
Author | : Julian Wolfreys |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1994-09-30 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781438424330 |
ISBN-13 | : 1438424337 |
Rating | : 4/5 (337 Downloads) |
Download or read book Being English written by Julian Wolfreys and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1994-09-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on recent developments concerning national identity in post-Marxist criticism and Derridean philosophy, Wolfreys looks at the ways in which literature is used to represent the English middle-classes to themselves, using texts by Coleridge, Wordsworth, Arnold, Gaskell, Collins, Eliot, and Trollope.