{"product_id":"literary-englands-versions-of-englishness-in-modern-writing-paperback-9780521061933","title":"Literary Englands; Versions of 'Englishness' in Modern Writing (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521061933","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLiterary Englands\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eVersions of 'Englishness' in Modern Writing\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe influence of 'Englishness' - loss, nostalgia and exile - on the work of twentieth-century writers.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid Gervais (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521061933, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 May 2008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e300 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.1 x 1.7 cm, 0.462 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Gervais as a critic is often both sensible and acute.\"   John Bayley, Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e 1. The nineteenth century: pastoral versions of England\u003cbr\u003e 2. Edward Thomas: an England of 'holes and corners'\u003cbr\u003e 3. Forster and Lawrence: exiles in the homeland\u003cbr\u003e 4. Late witness: George Sturt and village England\u003cbr\u003e 5. Contending Englands: F. R. Leavis and T. S. Eliot\u003cbr\u003e 6. Englands within England: Waugh and Orwell\u003cbr\u003e 7. Larkin, Betjeman and the aftermath of 'England'\u003cbr\u003e 8. Geoffrey Hill and the 'floating of nostalgia'\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: a homemade past\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: from c 1900 - [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: from c 1900 -\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20from%20c%201900%20-%20%5BDSBH%5D%22\"\u003eDSBH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005136425240,"sku":"9780521061933","price":35.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521061933i.jpg?v=1694968979","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/literary-englands-versions-of-englishness-in-modern-writing-paperback-9780521061933","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}