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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 and George Sturt, Orwell and Evelyn Waugh, Betjeman, Larkin and Geoffrey Hill. Through close engagement with the language and thought of these writers David Gervais shows the extent to which they have been influenced by the consciousness of working within a long-established, complex and sophisticated literary tradition. In the process he elucidates a nostalgia which lies at the heart of our culture.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Literary Englands
• Author: David Gervais
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300
• EAN: 9780521061933
• ISBN: 0521061938
• ID: 04090048
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 458 g
• Dimensions: 154 × 228 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. May 2008

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