Englishness and National Culture
Author: Antony Easthorpe
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-01-14
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1134643063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.