Being English : narratives, idioms, and performances of national identity from Coleridge to Trollope
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書誌事項
Being English : narratives, idioms, and performances of national identity from Coleridge to Trollope
State University of New York Press, c1994
- : hard
- pbk. : alk. paper
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-239) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Drawing on recent developments concerning national identity in post-Marxist criticism and Derridean philosophy, Wolfreys looks at the ways in which literature is used to represent the English middle-classes to themselves, using texts by Coleridge, Wordsworth, Arnold, Gaskell, Collins, Eliot, and Trollope.
目次
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The "Seemingly Indecipherable Metaphysics of Being" English or, Where to Begin?
1. Of Detours, Returns, Addictions and Women: Coleridge, Wordsworth and National Identity
2. Matthew Arnold, Englishness and a Question of Spirit
3. Arnold, Englishness and Critical Avoidance: A Reading of "My Countrymen"
4. Critical Nationalism and the "Truth" of (Identity in) Elizabeth Gaskell
5. Wilkie Collins and the (Secret) Heart of English Culture
6. The Ideology of Englishness: The Paradoxes of Tory-Liberal Culture and National Identity in Daniel Deronda
7. Reading Trollope: Whose Englishness is it Anyway?
(In) Conclusion: Towards a New Victorianism?
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
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