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Literary Englands versions of 'Englishness' in modern writing

In our time the concept of 'Englishness' often evokes in writers a complex sense of loss, nostalgia and exile. Literary Englands explores the influence of nationality on writers including Edward Thomas, Forster and Lawrence, Leavis and George Sturt, Orwell and Evelyn Waugh, Betjeman, Larkin and Geoffrey Hill.
Print Book, English, 2008
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Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 2008
XVI, 280 S.
9780521443388, 9780521061933, 0521443385, 0521061938
1073311560
Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. The nineteenth century: pastoral versions of England; 2. Edward Thomas: an England of 'holes and corners'; 3. Forster and Lawrence: exiles in the homeland; 4. Late witness: George Sturt and village England; 5. Contending Englands: F. R. Leavis and T. S. Eliot; 6. Englands within England: Waugh and Orwell; 7. Larkin, Betjeman and the aftermath of 'England'; 8. Geoffrey Hill and the 'floating of nostalgia'; Afterword: a homemade past; Index.