Arthur Aughey

The politics of Englishness (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The politics of Englishness provides a digest of the debates about England and Englishness and a unique perspective on those debates. Not only does the book provide readers with ready access to and interpretation of the significant literature on the English Question, it also enables them to make sense of the political, historical and cultural factors which constitute that question.

The book addresses the condition of England in three interrelated parts. The first looks at traditional narratives of the English polity and reads them as variations of a legend of political Englishness, of England as the exemplary exception, exceptional in its constitutional tradition and exemplary in its political stability. The second considers how the decay of that legend has encouraged anxieties about English political identity and about how English identity can be recognised within the new complexity of British governance. The third revisits these narratives and anxieties, examining them in terms of actual and metaphorical 'locations' of Englishness: the regional, the European and the British.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847796059
• Artikelnr.: 44042870

Autorenporträt

Arthur Aughey is Professor of Politics at the University of Ulster

Inhaltsangabe

1. Put out more flags Part one: Legends of Englishness 2. An absorptive
patria 3. The English idiom 4. Dead centre of inertia Part two: Anxieties
of Englishness 5. English before they were British 6. England.co.uk 7. Slow
alchemy of centuries Part three: Locations of Englishness 8. Region:
resources of identity 9. Europe: a necessary context 10. England: a British
relationship 11. Put out even more flags