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3) The English
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"During the fifth century following the withdrawal of the Roman military establishment from England, the armed incursions of the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and others of the Barbarian tribes from across the North Sea increased, and soon became a surge. After a relatively short time the subjugation of the British was complete and England a patchwork of waring domains and isolated settlements. Yet within the space of two centuries the English (as the tribes...
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Discusses writers such as Edwin Abbott, Peter Ackroyd, Richard Adams, Brian Aldiss, F. Anstey, J.G. Ballard, Clive Barker, J.M. Barrie, William Beckford, Max Beerbohm, Algernon Blackwood, William Blake, Robert Browning, John Bunyan, Byron, Italo Calvino, Lewis Carroll, Angela Carter, Chaucer, G.K. Chesterton, Coleridge, John Collier, Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Dunsany, George du Maurier, E.R. Eddison, T.S. Eliot, John Fowles, Leon Garfield, Alan Garner,...
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In 1943, J. Frank Dobie was invited to become the second American scholar (Henry Steel Commager was the first) to lecture under the newly founded professorship in American history at Cambridge University. And the invitation held even after Dobie explained that his knowledge of history consisted mainly of facts relating to the length of the horns of Longhorn steers, the music inherent in coyote howling, the duels Jim Bowie fought with his knife, and...
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"In the seventeenth century the English were often depicted as a nation of barbarians, fanatics, and king-killers. Two hundred years later they were more likely to be seen as the triumphant possessors of a unique political stability, a vigorous industrial revolution, and a world-wide empire. These may have been British achievements, but the virtues which brought about this transformation tended to be perceived as being specifically English. Ideas...
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"With the appearance of the tenth and final volume of Collected Works, a project fifty years in the making reaches completion: the publication of critically edited texts of all Emerson's works published in his lifetime and under his supervision."--The vol. 10 dust-jacket front flap.
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"Nation and Novel traces English prose fiction from its late medieval origins to the present day. Major novelists from Daniel Defoe to V.S. Naipaul have drawn on national history and mythology in novels which have pitted Cavalier against Puritan, Troy against Whig, region against nation, and domesticity against empire."--Jacket.
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Here is English society and government on the eve of the great migration to America. The Crown, the courts, Parliament, the church and the university, town and country, etc. are all brought to life in a book which captures the inner character of the English people of the 17th century.
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The subject is not patriotism but the way poets are forced to place themselves in a tradition, a relationship to the state and the establishment--sometimes as apologists, rebels or outsiders to answer the questions: who speaks for a nation's consciousness? who decides the form of the national identity.
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In The Fairy Way of Writing, Kevin Pask seeks to explain the origins and popularity of enchantment in Shakespeare's plays. Writers John Dryden and Joseph Addison originated the phrase "fairy way of writing" to define the concept of an English creative imagination founded on a synthesis of high literary culture and the popular culture of tales and superstitions. Beginning with Chaucer, Johnson, Dryden, and Milton, Pask argues that the fairy way of...
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"This bold new reading of Orwell's work focuses upon his representation of communities and the myths that shape them. In particular, it analyses his interpretations of class, gender and nationality within the context of the political and literary culture of the 1930s and 1940s. It consequently intervenes in key debates over the significance and legacy of one of the most-widely-read and influential authors of the twentieth century. Ben Clarke uses...
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"American literature is typically seen as something that inspired its own conception and that sprang into being as a cultural offshoot of Americas desire for national identity. But what of the vast precedent established by English literature, which was a major American import between 1750 and 1850?" "In The Importance of Feeling English, Leonard Tennenhouse revisits the landscape of early American literature and radically revises its features. Using...
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