This collection of essays is unique in focusing on this central debate in literary studies today: the relation between post-structuralist and historical (especially Marxist) literary theory and criticism. The volume includes a deconstructive reading of Marx, essays which relate history to the philosophical and institutional context, and a number of studies of particular texts, literary and nonliterary, which pose the question of history and literary theory with particular force.
This collection of essays is unique in focusing on this central debate in literary studies today: the relation between post-structuralist and historic...
In this major contribution to debates about English identity, leading theorist Robert J.C. Young argues that Englishness was never really about England at all. In the nineteenth century, it was rather developed as a form of long-distance identity for the English diaspora around the world. Young shows how the effects of this continue to reverberate today, nationally and globally.
Written by an internationally established theorist, whose work has been translated into 20 languages
Shows how potent the idea of Englishness is
Helps to...
In this major contribution to debates about English identity, leading theorist Robert J.C. Young argues that Englishness was never really about Englan...
In this major contribution to debates about English identity, leading theorist Robert J.C. Young argues that Englishness was never really about England at all. In the nineteenth century, it was rather developed as a form of long-distance identity for the English diaspora around the world. Young shows how the effects of this continue to reverberate today, nationally and globally.
Written by an internationally established theorist, whose work has been translated into 20 languages
Shows how potent the idea of Englishness is
Helps to...
In this major contribution to debates about English identity, leading theorist Robert J.C. Young argues that Englishness was never really about Englan...
