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Book SynopsisAn exciting and provocative collection of essays which registers the changes to 'Englishness' since the 1950s, 'The revisions of Englishness' explores how conventional ideas of 'Englishness' have been re-imagined in post-war fiction, poetry and film.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Notes on contributors
Introduction: 'Measuring Englishness' - John McLeod
Part One: Changing Englishness in the post-war years
1. 'Modernity, Jewishness, and "Being English"' - Vic Seidler
2. 'Queen's English' - Alan Sinfield
3. 'The miasma of Englishness at home and abroad in the fifties' - Elizabeth Maslen
Part Two: Revising the myth
4. 'An activity not an attribute: Mobilising Englishness' -James Wood
5. 'The English and the European: The poetry of Geoffrey Hill' - David Gervais
6. 'A case of red herrings: Englishness in the poetry of Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes - Antony Rowland
7. 'Love that dares not speak its name: Englishness and suburbia' - Vesna Goldsworthy
8. '"Dying of England": Melancholic Englishness in Adam Thorpe's 'Still', - Ingrid Gunby
Part Three: New Englands
9. ''Bhaji on the Beach': South Asian femininity at "home" on the "English" seaside?' - Bilkis Malek
10. ''The Black Album': Hanif Kureishi's revisions of "Englishness"' - Bart Moore-Gilbert
11. 'Beyond revisions: Rushdie, newness and the end of authenticity' - Martin Corner
Postscript: 'English in transition: Swift, Faulkner and an outsider's staunch belief' - David Rogers
