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Englishness : Twentieth-Century Popular Culture and the Forming of English Identity / Simon Featherstone.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748623655
  • 9780748632541
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Being English -- 1. Thinking about England -- 2. Reviving England -- 3. Festivals -- 4. Journeys -- 5 The North -- 6. Race -- 7. Sport -- 8. Voices -- 9. Romance -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748623655');This book examines the conflicts, dilemmas and contradictions that marked Englishness as the nation changed from an imperial power to a postcolonial state. The chapters deal with travel writing, popular song, music hall and variety theatre, dances, elocution lessons, cricket and football, and national festivals, as well as literature and film. 'High' and 'popular' cultures are brought together in dialogue, and the diversity as well as the problematic nature of English identity is emphasised. The case studies are linked by their interests in different kinds of performances of being English, and by a particular focus upon the voice and the body as key sites for the struggles of modern England. The book is a lively contribution to current interdisciplinary debates about Englishness, national cultures and postcolonial identities. It is relevant to undergraduate students of literature, drama, film, politics and sociology, and will also appeal to a general readership. Key FeaturesWide-ranging survey of twentieth-century English culturesInnovative attention to popular culturesNew development of postcolonial theoriesClear, accessible writingConcise and varied case studies"
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780748632541

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Being English -- 1. Thinking about England -- 2. Reviving England -- 3. Festivals -- 4. Journeys -- 5 The North -- 6. Race -- 7. Sport -- 8. Voices -- 9. Romance -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

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GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748623655');This book examines the conflicts, dilemmas and contradictions that marked Englishness as the nation changed from an imperial power to a postcolonial state. The chapters deal with travel writing, popular song, music hall and variety theatre, dances, elocution lessons, cricket and football, and national festivals, as well as literature and film. 'High' and 'popular' cultures are brought together in dialogue, and the diversity as well as the problematic nature of English identity is emphasised. The case studies are linked by their interests in different kinds of performances of being English, and by a particular focus upon the voice and the body as key sites for the struggles of modern England. The book is a lively contribution to current interdisciplinary debates about Englishness, national cultures and postcolonial identities. It is relevant to undergraduate students of literature, drama, film, politics and sociology, and will also appeal to a general readership. Key FeaturesWide-ranging survey of twentieth-century English culturesInnovative attention to popular culturesNew development of postcolonial theoriesClear, accessible writingConcise and varied case studies"

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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