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David Rogers is Head of the School of Humanities, Kingston University, London oh yes. John McLeod is Lecturer in English at the University of LeedsWhat is 'Englishness'? Who defines it? What impact have changes to England and the English, as well as England's relationship with the outside world, had on 'Englishness'? Has 'Englishness' become an anachronism at the turn of a new century?
These questions and others like them have become familiar ones in recent debates concerning English politics, culture and identity. 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, 'The revisions of Englishness' explores how Englishness has been revised for a variety of aesthetic and political purposes and makes a ground-breaking contribution to the contemporary debates surrounding Englishness in literary and cultural studies.
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Notes on contributors
Introduction: 'Measuring Englishness' - John McLeod
Part One: Changing Englishness in the post-war years
1. 'Modernity, Jewishness, and "Being English"' - Vic Seidler
2. 'Queen's English' - Alan Sinfield
3. 'The miasma of Englishness at home and abroad in the fifties' - Elizabeth Maslen
Part Two: Revising the myth
4. 'An activity not an attribute: Mobilising Englishness' -James Wood
5. 'The English and the European: The poetry of Geoffrey Hill' - David Gervais
6. 'A case of red herrings: Englishness in the poetry of Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes - Antony Rowland
7. 'Love that dares not speak its name: Englishness and suburbia' - Vesna Goldsworthy
8. '"Dying of England": Melancholic Englishness in Adam Thorpe's 'Still', - Ingrid Gunby
Part Three: New Englands
9. ''Bhaji on the Beach': South Asian femininity at "home" on the "English" seaside?' - Bilkis Malek
10. ''The Black Album': Hanif Kureishi's revisions of "Englishness"' - Bart Moore-Gilbert
11. 'Beyond revisions: Rushdie, newness and the end of authenticity' - Martin Corner
Postscript: 'English in transition: Swift, Faulkner and an outsider's staunch belief' - David Rogers
What is 'Englishness'? Who defines it? What impact have changes to England and the English, as well as England's relationship with the outside world, had on 'Englishness'? Has 'Englishness' become an anachronism at the turn of a new century?
These questions and others like them have become familiar ones in recent debates concerning English politics, culture and identity. 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, 'The revisions of Englishness' explores how Englishness has been revised for a variety of aesthetic and political purposes and makes a ground-breaking contribution to the contemporary debates surrounding Englishness in literary and cultural studies.