Literature of an Independent England: Revisions of England, Englishness, and English Literature

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Understanding the Post-British English Nation State....Pages 15-30
The Future of ‘the Global Kingdom’: Post-Unionism, Post-Nationalism and the Politics of Voice, Loyalty, and Exit....Pages 31-45
‘England Is the Country and the Country Is England’: But What of the Politics?....Pages 46-59
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Romantic Englishness: Periodical Writing and National Identity After the Napoleonic Wars....Pages 63-76
‘Out-of-the-Way Asiatic Disease’: Contagion, Malingering, and Sherlock’s England....Pages 77-90
A. J. Cook, D. H. Lawrence, and Revolutionary England: Discourses and Performances of Region and Nation in 1926....Pages 91-102
‘England Am I … ’: Eugenics, Devolution, and Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts ....Pages 103-115
Orwell’s England and Blair’s Britain: Warm Beer and Cold War....Pages 116-129
Anticipating the Neoliberal Nation: Philip Larkin and the Displacement of Englishness....Pages 130-144
Front Matter....Pages 145-145
J. G. Ballard’s Traumatised and Traumatising Englishness....Pages 147-161
England, Devolution, and Fictional Kingdoms....Pages 162-174
Black British Writing and Post-British England....Pages 175-187
Devolution and Cultural Catch-Up: Decoupling England and its Literature from English Literature....Pages 188-199
Front Matter....Pages 201-201
English Literature as Ideology....Pages 203-217
The New Rise and Fall of English Literature....Pages 218-233
Afterword....Pages 234-239
Back Matter....Pages 240-253