{"product_id":"the-revision-of-englishness-9780719069727","title":"The Revision of Englishness","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eNotes on contributors\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: 'Measuring Englishness' - John McLeod\u003cbr\u003ePart One: Changing Englishness in the post-war years\u003cbr\u003e1. 'Modernity, Jewishness, and \"Being English\"' - Vic Seidler\u003cbr\u003e2. 'Queen's English' - Alan Sinfield\u003cbr\u003e3. 'The miasma of Englishness at home and abroad in the fifties' - Elizabeth Maslen\u003cbr\u003ePart Two: Revising the myth\u003cbr\u003e4. 'An activity not an attribute: Mobilising Englishness' -James Wood\u003cbr\u003e5. 'The English and the European: The poetry of Geoffrey Hill' - David Gervais\u003cbr\u003e6. 'A case of red herrings: Englishness in the poetry of Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes - Antony Rowland\u003cbr\u003e7. 'Love that dares not speak its name: Englishness and suburbia' - Vesna Goldsworthy\u003cbr\u003e8. '\"Dying of England\": Melancholic Englishness in Adam Thorpe's 'Still', - Ingrid Gunby\u003cbr\u003ePart Three: New Englands\u003cbr\u003e9. ''Bhaji on the Beach': South Asian femininity at \"home\" on the \"English\" seaside?' - Bilkis Malek\u003cbr\u003e10. ''The Black Album': Hanif Kureishi's revisions of \"Englishness\"' - Bart Moore-Gilbert\u003cbr\u003e11. 'Beyond revisions: Rushdie, newness and the end of authenticity' - Martin Corner \u003cbr\u003ePostscript: 'English in transition: Swift, Faulkner and an outsider's staunch belief' - David Rogers\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037300982103,"sku":"9780719069727","price":72.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780719069727.jpg?v=1750935237","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-revision-of-englishness-9780719069727","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}