The Constitution of English literature : the state, the nation, and the canon /
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 fundamenta...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Bloomsbury,
2013.
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| Series: | WISH list.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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." |
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| Item Description: | Editorial preface -- Acknowledgements -- The literary form of the British state -- The Greenwich Meridian, Greenwich -- Imperial sovereignty -- Modernism as constitutional conservatism -- Declaring bankruptcy. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 153 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-148) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781472544384 1472544382 1780931107 9781780931104 1780931085 9781780931081 |
| DOI: | 10.5040/9781472544384 |