Englishness : twentieth-century popular culture and the forming of English identity /

This book examines the conflicts, dilemmas and contradictions that marked Englishness as the nation changed from an imperial power to a postcolonial state. The chapters deal with travel writing, popular song, music hall and variety theatre, dances, elocution lessons, cricket and football, and nation...

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Main Author: Featherstone, Simon, 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2009]
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