Englishness: : : Foreigners and Images of National Identity in Postwar Literature / / M. Spiering.

• Superior document: Studia Imagologica Series ; v.5
• VerfasserIn: Spiering, M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill Academic Publishers,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studia Imagologica Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 198 pages) :; illustrations

Faced with the demise of their country on the world stage, with the Americanization of their society and with the prospect of integration into Europe, many people in postwar-Britain, and in particular in England, began to look more closely at their national identity. Using literature as a source mat...

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
• PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• one LITERATURE AND THE QUEST FOR IDENTITY
• 1. The quest for identity and the Second World War
• 2. Literature and national identity: imagology
• two THE POSTWAR PERIOD
• three ENGLISHNESS AND AMERICANS
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Anglo-American novel: two images of America
• 3. The Anglo-American novel: humour and American otherness
• 4. Englishness in The Loved One and Changing Places
• 5. The Loved One, Evelyn Waugh and Englishness
• 6. Changing Places, David Lodge and Englishness
• 7. Englishness and humanness
• four ENGLISHNESS AND EUROPEANS, ARABS, RUSSIANS
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The English invasion story: cautionary and sensational
• 3. The English invasion story: origins
• 4. The English invasion story: early and late
• 5. The Old Men at the Zoo: Englishness and united Europeans
• 6. 1985: Englishness and Muslim Arabs
• 7. Russian Hide and Seek: Englishness and Communist Russians
• 8. Englishness and ruralness
• five SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
• BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CITED
• INDEX.