Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 The nineteenth century: pastoral versions of England
- 2 Edward Thomas: An England of ‘holes and corners’
- 3 Forster and Lawrence: exiles in the homeland
- 4 Late witness: George Sturt and village England
- 5 Contending Englands: F. R. Leavis and T. S. Eliot
- 6 Englands within England: Waugh and Orwell
- 7 Larkin, Betjeman and the aftermath of ‘England’
- 8 Geoffrey Hill and the ‘floating of nostalgia’
- Afterword: A homemade past
- Index
Acknowledgements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 The nineteenth century: pastoral versions of England
- 2 Edward Thomas: An England of ‘holes and corners’
- 3 Forster and Lawrence: exiles in the homeland
- 4 Late witness: George Sturt and village England
- 5 Contending Englands: F. R. Leavis and T. S. Eliot
- 6 Englands within England: Waugh and Orwell
- 7 Larkin, Betjeman and the aftermath of ‘England’
- 8 Geoffrey Hill and the ‘floating of nostalgia’
- Afterword: A homemade past
- Index
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- Literary EnglandsVersions of 'Englishness' in Modern Writing, pp. xvPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1993