Englishness by Colls, Robert -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover-Page Half-Title Title Contents List of contributors List of contributors in 1986 Preface Introduction to the second edition

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1 Englishness and the national culture

I II III IV V VI Notes

2 Englishness and the political culture

1688 and a Liberal freedom The absorbing qualities of the State Ireland Empire A vulnerable power: Enemies within and without State becomes Society Notes

3 The discovery of rural England

I II III IV V VI VII Notes

4 The invention of English

The crisis of leadership From classics to English New cultural strategies The new English Culture, society and the English Association Conclusions Notes

5 A literature for England

Forging the English literary tradition Romantic culture and patriotism English fields and flowers of verse The fiction of an essential England Unknown England and nowhere lands Notes

6 The identity of English music: The reception of Elgar 1898–1935

Elgar established: 1890–1914 Elgar and the war effort Neglect? 1920–30 The Englishness of Elgar redefined Conclusion Notes

7 The Englishwoman

Notes

8 ‘The Marginal Britons’: The Irish

Notes

9 Englishness and the Liberal inheritance after 1886

From Liberalism to Englishness Before and after 1886 Collectivism and Stanley Baldwin Neville Chamberlain and Arthur Mee Aftermath Notes

10 The Conservative party and patriotism

I II III IV V Notes

11 Socialism, the state, and some oppositional Englishness

Keep smiling through Flesh and Blood, in the cupboard Before the idea of Englishness, England, and its State Cut to 1984: The modern Leviathan Yeast was in that dough News from somewhere Thomas Kirkup William Morris So, what went wrong? Notes

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