The nation in British literature and culture / edited by Andrew Murphy.
"This book offers a comprehensive account of Britain as a national and cultural formation, exploring the relationships among the ethnic elements that were combined to create it. Shifting understandings of British identity are tracked and contemporary challenges to the ongoing survival of Britis...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
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2023.
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Table of Contents:
- What is Britain? / Andrew Murphy
- Wales in Britain / Helen Fulton
- Scotland in Britain / Gerard Carruthers
- Ireland in Britain / Jim Smyth
- England in Britain / Krishan Kumar
- Cultural borrowing / Edward Wilson-LEE
- Tradition and transformation in literature / Neil Rhodes
- Milton and the remaking of the nation in seventeenth-century England / David Loewenstein
- The American revolution / Jerom Tharaud
- The French revolution / David Duff
- 'And what should they know of England who only England know? / Anian Loomba
- Rather unpleasant stories : popular fictions of empire / Matthew P.M. Kerr
- Sun-drowned streets and wasted lives : imperial decline and the colonial novel / Praseeda Gopinath
- 'It's being so cheerful that keeps me going' : the nation in the Second World War / Gill Plain
- The new British / J. Dillon Brown
- Censorship / Celia Marshik
- 'Wake up the nation' : modern pop and the quest for a new England / Ben Winsworth
- Queer nation / Brian Lewis
- The future of the union : a political science perspective / Etain Tannam
- What is British literature now? / Kirstian Shaw
- Borderline Britain / Andrew Murphy.