Book/Printed Material The Constitution of English literature : the state, the nation, and the canon

Title

• The Constitution of English literature : the state, the nation, and the canon

Summary

• Calls upon those working in English literature to see the ongoing underpinning of the discipline by the eighteenth-century unification which was codified by the Burkean constitutional settlement, and to understand this settlement not only in terms of content or canonical line-up, but more fundamentally in terms of English literature's methodologies. It suggests replacing it with a more open-ended, inclusive and internationalist literature, free of the founding imperial assumptions which created a "shadow-constitution."

Names

• Gardiner, Michael, 1970- author

Created / Published

• London : Bloomsbury, 2013.

Contents

• Editorial preface -- Acknowledgements -- The literary form of the British state -- The Greenwich Meridian, Greenwich -- Imperial sovereignty -- Modernism as constitutional conservatism -- Declaring bankruptcy.

Headings

• -  English literature--History and criticism
• -  National characteristics, English, in literature
• -  English literature
• -  National characteristics in literature

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Notes

• -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-148) and index.
• -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

• 1 electronic resource (vii, 153 pages)

Call Number/Physical Location

• PR149.N3

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2020718919

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2020718919

Rights Advisory

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-3.0 Unported CC BY-NC 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode External

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access

Online Format

• image
• pdf

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2020718919

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