Out of place [electronic resource] : Englishness, empire, and the locations of identity / Ian Baucom.
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TextPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1999.Description: x, 249 pSubject(s): - English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- National characteristics, English, in literature
- Commonwealth literature (English) -- History and criticism
- English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Group identity in literature
- Decolonization in literature
- Imperialism in literature
- Colonies in literature
- Race in literature
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History
- England -- Civilization
- PR478.N37 B38 1999eb
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-243) and index.
Introduction: Locating English Identity -- Ch. 1. The House of Memory: John Ruskin and the Architecture of Englishness -- Ch. 2. "British to the Backbone": On Imperial Subject-Fashioning -- Ch. 3. The Path from War to Friendship: E.M. Forster's Mutiny Pilgrimage -- Ch. 4. Put a Little English on It: C.L.R. James and England's Field of Play -- Ch. 5. Among the Ruins: Topographies of Postimperial Melancholy -- Ch. 6. The Riot of Englishness: Migrancy, Nomadism, and the Redemption of the Nation -- Afterword: Something Rich and Strange.
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