Being English
Title | Being English PDF eBook |
Author | Sayan Chattopadhyay |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 161 |
Release | 2021-11-29 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1000507211 |
This book critically examines the cultural desire for anglicisation of the Indian middle class in the context of postcolonial India. It looks at the history of anglicised self-fashioning as one of the major responses of the Indian middle class to British colonialism. The book explores the rich variety of nineteenth- and twentieth-century writings that document the attempts by the Indian middle class to innovatively interpret their personal histories, their putative racial histories, and the history of India to appropriate the English language and lay claim to an “English” identity. It discusses this unique quest for “Englishness” by reading the works of authors like Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Rabindranath Tagore, Cornelia Sorabji, Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Dom Moraes, and Salman Rushdie. An important intervention, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of postcolonial studies, Indian English literature, South Asian studies, cultural studies, and English literature in general.
Being English
Title | Being English PDF eBook |
Author | Julian Wolfreys |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 1994-09-30 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1438424337 |
Drawing on recent developments concerning national identity in post-Marxist criticism and Derridean philosophy, Wolfreys looks at the ways in which literature is used to represent the English middle-classes to themselves, using texts by Coleridge, Wordsworth, Arnold, Gaskell, Collins, Eliot, and Trollope.
A Defence of English Commodities. Being an answer to the Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufactures, and utterly rejecting and renouncing everything that is wearable that comes from England ... To which is annexed, an Elegy upon the death of Mr. Demar ... Written by Dr. Swift
Title | A Defence of English Commodities. Being an answer to the Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufactures, and utterly rejecting and renouncing everything that is wearable that comes from England ... To which is annexed, an Elegy upon the death of Mr. Demar ... Written by Dr. Swift PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Swift |
Publisher | |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 1720 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Institutes of Masonic Jurisprudence; Being an Exemplification of the English Book of Constitutions, Methodically Digested Under Appropriate Heads; Together with a Summary View of the Laws and Principles of the Royal Arch
Title | Institutes of Masonic Jurisprudence; Being an Exemplification of the English Book of Constitutions, Methodically Digested Under Appropriate Heads; Together with a Summary View of the Laws and Principles of the Royal Arch PDF eBook |
Author | George Oliver |
Publisher | |
Pages | 544 |
Release | 1859 |
Genre | Freemasonry |
ISBN |
How to Be English
Title | How to Be English PDF eBook |
Author | David Boyle |
Publisher | Square Peg |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2015-07-16 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780224100977 |
English culture is confused, muddled and often borrowed. The purpose of this book is to give the reader a complete grounding in the idiosyncrasies of the English and to pin down the absurdities and warmth of Englishness at its best. Featured in this book are such established English cultural behemoths as the Beatles, Big Ben and the Last Night of the Proms alongside less celebrated quirks such as meat pies and the working man's haven, the allotment. Here we celebrate the bell-ringers and Morris dancers, bowler hats ('the symbol of respectable Englishness') and cardigans ('symbol of staid middle-class solidarity'). We examine the brutality of Punch and Judy and our historic love of fairies, once so much a part of the English psyche that they were described as 'the British religion'. At once fond and irreverent, laudatory and curious, How to Be English might just teach us how to be English once again.
Being English in Scotland
Title | Being English in Scotland PDF eBook |
Author | Murray Watson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | SOCIAL SCIENCE |
ISBN | 9781474473422 |
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748618590);Boldly venturing into new territory, Being English in Scotland reveals how a massive increase of English settlers has unobtrusively formed Scotland's most significant migrant community in modern times. The history of relations between England and Scotland is always passionate and often controversial. What is extraordinary is that the pervasive spread and influence of English migration north of the Border has been largely ignored until now.Using a range of different sources including oral history contributions from English people living all over Scotland, Murray Watson explores how the English merged into and contributed to Scottish society in the second half of the twentieth century. Many of the myths surrounding the English in Scotland are dispelled and what emerges instead is that the migratory experience has been extremely complex and multi-faceted in nature. The near-invisible absorption of so many English-born migrants has far-reaching implications for the host communities at a local, regional and national level, as well as influencing Scotland's economy, its demography, culture and society.At a political and constitutional level, after a number of false starts, Scotland has gained some measure of devolved autonomy. And here, English migrants have shown a range of fascinating responses in the reconstruction of their own identities. In leaving behind the undoubted insecurities and uncertainties about what it means to be English, their reactions to moving to a country with strong traditions of national feeling has been intriguing and surprising.The first comprehensive exploration of the complex process of English migration into Scotland, Being English in Scotland challenges us with as many questions as answers.Key FeaturesThe first full-scale coverage of the English in Scotland - Scotland's largest migrant group (over 366,000 English-born adults live in Scotland).Challenges many of the commonly-held assumptions and myths about the English in Scotland.Explores findings about racism and the construction of national identities."
Being and Well-Being
Title | Being and Well-Being PDF eBook |
Author | J.A. English-Lueck |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2010-09-20 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0804771588 |
This book tells the stories of the workers, the young people who will be future workers, and retired people who feel capitalism in their very bodies, as they work to define what it means to be healthy in America.