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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Englishness"”.
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“Þe Inglis in seruage”: Textual Englishness, 1175 – 1330
… be only a fraction of what constituted literary Englishness, and my research calls for a more nuanced description of English literary identity during the period in question. The hybrid critical approach I employ is a blend of historicist and structural linguistic methodologies that takes both …
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1960s travel fiction and Englishness during the postimperial turn
… function of travel narratives to define Englishness, however, faced a fundamental crisis of meaning when the British Empire starting falling apart after WWII. This crisis emerged as an explicit literary subject in several key 1960s novels: John Fowles's The Magus (1965), V. S. Naipaul's …
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PRIVILEGE LOST: THE COUNTRY HOUSE, ARISTOCRACY AND ENGLISHNESS IN NANCY MITFORD'S NOVELS
This thesis explores the connections between Englishness and the English aristocracy in Nancy Mitford’s novels through a detailed analysis of their symbolic-cultural representation: the English country house. The main purpose of the present work, which combines literary, biographical, historical, …
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Anglo-Saxon Descent, Antiquarian Scholarship, and Germanic Englishness, c. 1560 - c. 1620
… the emergence in the 1560s of a conception of Englishness grounded in the Anglo-Saxon past, relative to the less discriminating sense of Romano-Britishness that characterised earlier and other contemporary perceptions of the national past. The second part traces the evolution of Anglo-Saxon …
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Land of hope and glory: Englishness, imperialism and audiences of major sport events
… debate about the imperialism associated with ‘Englishness’ and subsequent marginalisation of ‘other’ identities has become increasingly salient. From the European Union Referendum to the mourning of Elizabeth II’s passing, explicit displays of the contention between identity, hierarchy and …
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A 'long defence against the non-existent' : Englishness in the poetry of Phillip Larkin
Larkin's place in the genealogy of English poetry is significant since, unlike many of his predecessors, his work lacks the hope or possibility of redemption offered by faith. Larkin countered the void created by his agnosticism by appealing to the power both of ritual and of the English landscape, …
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English and Englishness: a cultural history of English studies in British higher education, 1880-1980
… example, approved modes of communication, and Englishness. The thesis examines the specific historical conditions under which such objects and issues were brought into mutual relation through the establishment of full academic disciplinary status, the installation of an integrated career …
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Island bodies: registers of race and 'Englishness' on Tristan da Cunha c.1811 - c.1940
… and often contradictory registers of race and Englishness in these metropolitan representations. At the same time it unsettles and attempts to reconstitute the dominant lenses through which the island has previously been analysed.
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Gardens of the Restoration: a new approach to establishing the Englishness of gardens in England 1660-1680
This thesis investigates whether an English character can be identified in garden designin the twenty years after the Restoration in England, 1660-1680. I argue that the influence of France and the Netherlands on English garden design before 1680 is not as dominant as previously thought1and that …
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Creating a "Mythology for England": the role of England and Englishness in the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien
… from other countries to help create a sense of Englishness. He particularly drew upon the Finnish [Ca/eva/a, a work created by folklorist Elias LOnnrot from existing Finnish folk ballads. In later years Tolkien dismissed as 'absurd' the intention of creating an English mythology. He moved away …
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The Irish Prince: Irishness in the Works of Oscar Wilde
… persona as Together with his Irishness, Wilde's Englishness is often and Englishness often serves as a "double" for Irishness - as Jerusha McCormack's as Richard Kearney's individual chapters such as Seamus Heaney's
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Keeping the money under the soap : constructions of the English and English migrants in Australian nationalist texts
… This thesis interrogates representations of ‘Englishness’and by extension, English migrants, in a variety of Australian cultural texts, including film, television, newspapers and academic publications. Underlying this investigation are two major research questions: What are the factors …
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Heritage tourism and English national identity
… it is concerned with examining the components of Englishness and the social processes by which these are communicated and understood. This investigation focuses upon three sites, Battle Abbey in East Sussex, Hever Castle in Kent and Chartwell, also in Kent. The primary research methods are …
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The English in America: National Identity and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1620--1688
… trade accelerated the production of fantasies of Englishness in the early modern era. Literary scholarship has tended to divide English and American literature too sharply at this early period, seeking distinctive national literatures from these cultures before they were distinct nations. The same …
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The Labor of Writing in the Pastoral Genre: Philip Sidney's Arcadia through John Milton's Paradise Lost
… they are incorporated into a larger concept of Englishness. While the genre of the pastoral is ostensibly resisting the pressures of modernity - i.e. the corrupting influence of trade and urban life - what struck me is that it does so in ways that look distinctly modern to us, through …
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Aspects of national identity in the art songs of Ralph Vaughan Williams before the Great War
… Great War expressed the composer’s vision of “Englishness” or “English national identity”. These terms can be defined as the popular national consciousness of the English people. It is something that demands continual reassessment because it is constantly changing. Thus, this study takes into …
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The black, British Atlantic: Blackness in Victorian literature
… notions of identity. In the process, she exposes Englishness as an unstable marker of identity that can be performed by people of different races. Chapter four considers how Wilkie Collins problematizes binaristic notions of race in Armadale (1866), Miss or Mrs? (1873), and The Guilty River …
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English Imperial Selfhood and Semiperipheral Witchcraft in The Faerie Queene, Daemonologie, and The Tempest
… of each text thus demonize these women, defining Englishness in “civilized” opposition to their alterity. By invoking witches’ unruly and grotesque bodies, militant Englishmen in these texts justify their eradication of these women from their native Scottish and Irish spaces as divinely ordained …
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