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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465651403321

Autore

Aughey Arthur

Titolo

The politics of Englishness [[electronic resource] /] / Arthur Aughey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press

New York, : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, c2007

ISBN

1-78170-130-X

1-84779-204-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Disciplina

305.82/1

Soggetti

National characteristics, English - History

Nationalism - England - History

National characteristics, British - History

Nationalism - Great Britain - History

Electronic books.

England Civilization

Great Britain Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-248) and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Legends of Englishness -- pt. II. Anxieties of Englishness -- pt. III. Locations of Englishness.

Sommario/riassunto

The politics of Englishness provides a digest of the debates about England and Englishness and a unique perspective on those debates. Not only does the book provide readers with ready access to and interpretation of the significant literature on the English Question, it also enables them to make sense of the political, historical and cultural factors which constitute that question.The book addresses the condition of England in three interrelated parts. The first looks at traditional narratives of the English polity and reads them as variations of a legend of political Englishness, of England a