Englishness and National Culture

by Antony Easthope and Easthorpe Anton

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415196884
• ISBN13: 9780415196888
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"