Literary Englands: Versions of 'Englishness' in Modern Writing

by David Gervais

Book Overview

In our time 'Englishness' has become a theme for speculation rather than dogma: twentieth-century writers have found it an elusive and ambiguous concept, a cue for nostalgia or for a sense of exile and loss. Literary Englands meditates on the contemporary meanings of 'Englishness' and explores some of the ways in which a sense of nationality has informed and shaped the work of a range of writers including Edward Thomas, Forster and Lawrence, Leavis...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521443385
• ISBN13: 9780521443388
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"