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1	Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories more books like this by Jean Howard, E Howard Jean, Phyllis Rackin add to wishlist Engendering a Nation adopts a sophisticated feminist analysis to examine the place of gender in contesting representations of nationhood in early modern England. Taking the Shakespearean history play as their point of departure, the authors argue that the change from dynastic kingdom to modern nation was integrally connected to shifts in ... see all copies from $27.50! new only from $32.37! \| first editions
2	Nation & Novel: The English Novel from Its Origins to the Present Day more books like this by Professor Patrick Parrinder add to wishlist What is 'English' about the English novel, and how has the idea of the English nation been shaped by the writers of fiction? How do the novel's profound differences from poetry and drama affect its representation of national consciousness? Nation and Novel sets out to answer these questions by tracing English prose fiction from its late medieval ... see all copies from $13.42! new only from $13.93! \| first editions \| SVS
3	George Eliot and the Politics of National Inheritance more books like this by Professor Bernard Semmel add to wishlist In this stimulating history of the ideas behind George Eliot's novels, Bernard Semmel explores George Eliot's use of the plot of inheritance in her novels. Through detailed analyses of Eliot's novels and a study of the intellectual currents of the time, Semmel demonstrates that her feelings toward inheritance provided the central ideas in her ... see all copies from $2.49! new only from $6.47! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Brewer's Anthology of England & the English more books like this by David Milsted add to wishlist Brewer's Anthology of England and the English is an English 'parliament of voices' - from the patriotic and laudatory to the dissident and choleric. With attention focused as never before on England - the 'sleeping partner' of a loosening Union, and the definitions of 'England' and 'Britain' under increasing scrutiny, it offers a timely, thought ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.75! \| first editions
5	Literary Englands: Versions of 'Englishness' in Modern Writing more books like this by David Gervais add to wishlist In our time 'Englishness' has become a theme for speculation rather than dogma: twentieth-century writers have found it an elusive and ambiguous concept, a cue for nostalgia or for a sense of exile and loss. Literary Englands meditates on the contemporary meanings of 'Englishness' and explores some of the ways in which a sense of nationality has ... see all copies from $23.49! new only from $29.87! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Hanif Kureishi: Postcolonial Storyteller more books like this by Kenneth C Kaleta add to wishlist 'Hanif Kureishi is a proper Englishman. Almost.' So observes biographer Kenneth Kaleta. Well known for his films "My Beautiful Laundrette" and "Sammy and Rosie Get Laid", the Anglo-Asian screenwriter, essayist, and novelist has become one of the leading portrayers of Britain's multicultural society. His work raises important questions of personal ... see all copies from $6.42! new only from $31.54! \| SVS
7	Behind Her Times: Transition England in the Novels of Mary Arnold Ward more books like this by Judith Wilt add to wishlist From 1890 to 1905, Mary Arnold Ward was the best-selling novelist in the English language. As the Edwardian age came to an end, however, she became a target of scorn for modernists such as Virginia Woolf, and today most of her books have fallen out of print. But in her novels we can vividly experience the long transition from Victorian to modern ... see all copies from $5.96! new only from $16.26!
8	Figures of Conversion: The Jewish Question and English National Identity more books like this by Professor Michael Ragussis add to wishlist "I knew a Man, who having nothing but a summary Notion of Religion himself, and being wicked and profligate to the last Degree in his Life, made a thorough Reformation in himself, by labouring to convert a "Jew."" --Daniel Defoe, "The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" (1719) When the hero of Defoe's novel listens skeptically to this anecdote ... see all copies from $16.15! new only from $39.95!
9	England and Englishness: Ideas of Nationhood in English Poetry, 1688-1900 more books like this by John Lucas add to wishlist John Lucas' study examines how the notion of "Englishness" is expressed in English poetry. His 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, sometimes as rebels and outsiders. Through close readings of poets from Pope and ... see all copies from $3.49! new only from $10.55! \| first editions
10	Aliens and Englishness in Elizabethan Drama more books like this by Lloyd Edward Kermode add to wishlist Covering a wide variety of plays from 1550-1600, including Shakespeare's second tetralogy, this book explores moral, historical, and comic plays as contributions to Elizabethan debates on Anglo-foreign relations in England. The economic, social, religious, and political issues that arose from inter-British contact and Continental immigration into ... see all copies from $69.95! new only from $78.42! \| SVS
11	Heroes, Mavericks, and Bounders: The English Gentleman from Lord Curzon to James Bond more books like this by Hugh David add to wishlist The author of "The Fitzrovians" examines the fortunes of the English gentleman from the end of the 19th century to the present. Starting on the playing fields of Eton, he reveals the true origins of our modern idea of a gentleman and comments on how the gentleman has fared since his heyday in the Edwardian summer. From Lord Curzon and the "souls" ... see all copies from $3.72! first editions
12	John Masefield's England: A Study of the National Themes in His Work more books like this by Fraser Drew add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
13	The Importance of Feeling English: American Literature and the British Diaspora, 1750-1850 more books like this by Leonard Tennenhouse add to wishlist American literature is typically seen as something that inspired its own conception and that sprang into being as a cultural offshoot of America's 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 ... see all copies from $32.99! new only from $32.99! \| first editions
14 view cover	Imperialism, Reform and the Making of Englishness in Jane Eyre more books like this by Sue Thomas add to wishlist In a famous passage from Charlotte Bronte's novel, Jane Eyre identifies herself with 'millions' in 'ferment', 'in silent revolt against their lot'. Elsewhere, she compares herself to a missionary preaching liberty to the enslaved, helping them secure their freedom. Her imagination is shaped by historical events, and yet Bronte is usually thought ... see all copies from $83.20! new only from $83.20! \| SVS
15	England & Englishness more books like this by Lucas add to wishlist John Lucas' study examines how the notion of "Englishness" is expressed in English poetry. His 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, sometimes as rebels and outsiders. Through close readings of poets from Pope and ... see all copies from $3.00!
16 view cover	Victorian Christmas in Print more books like this by Tara Moore add to wishlist Analyzes how the Christmas holiday, revitalized during the Victorian era, and the flurry of texts supporting it contributed to English national identity. see all copies from $81.79! new only from $81.79! \| SVS
17	Modern English Poetry-From Hardy to Hughes: A Critical Survey more books like this by John Lucas add to wishlist see all copies from $8.94!
18 view cover	Saracens and the Making of English Identity: The Auchinleck Manuscript more books like this by Bly, Siobhain Bly Calkin, Siobhain Bly Calkin add to wishlist This book explores the ways in which discourses of religious, racial, and national identity blur and engage each other in the medieval West. Specifically, the book studies depictions of Muslims in England during the 1330s and argues that these depictions, although historically inaccurate, served to enhance and advance assertions of English ... see all copies from $37.55! new only from $37.55! \| SVS
19 view cover	Empire and Nation in Early English Renaissance Literature more books like this by Stewart Mottram add to wishlist The complex topics of colonialism, empire and nation run throughout English Renaissance literature. Here, the author moves beyond recent work on England's 'British' colonial interests, arguing for England's self-image in the sixteenth century as an 'empire of itself', part of a culture which deliberately set itself apart from Britain and Europe. ... see all copies from $91.35! new only from $107.42! \| SVS
20	English character and the English literary tradition more books like this by Malcolm William Wallace add to wishlist see all copies from $15.00!
21	The English line : poetry of the unpoetic from Wordsworth to Larkin more books like this by John Powell Ward add to wishlist A critical study of a number of English poets, from Wordsworth to Larkin. John Powell Ward's previous work includes "Poetry and the Sociological Idea", "Wordsworth's Language of Men", "The Poetry of R.S. Thomas", "Raymond Williams", "The Clearing" and "To Get Clear". see all copies from $19.51! first editions
22 view cover	The Fantasy Literature of England more books like this by Colin Manlove add to wishlist In this text on English fantasy, Colin Manlove shows that for all its immense diversity, English fantasy can best be understood in terms of its strong national character, rather than as an international genre. Showing its development from Beowulf to Blake, the author describes English fantasy's modern growth through secondary world, metaphysical, ... see all copies from $140.16! new only from $148.62!
23	Englishness more books like this by Hans-Jürgen Diller add to wishlist see all copies from $52.04!
24 view cover	Translation and Nation a Cultural Polit more books like this by Roger Ellis add to wishlist In recent years the marginal position which has defined translators and their texts has come under increasing and sustained challenge. However, although translation and subjectivity has been thoroughly considered in terms of post-colonialism and post-structuralism, there are few discussions which focus specifically on the construction of ... see all copies from $46.75! new only from $46.75!

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