Literature of an Independent England

Introduction: Claire Westall and Michael Gardiner PART I: THE POLITICS OF ENGLISH INDEPENDENCE 1. Understanding the Post-British English Nation-State; Andrew Mycock 2. The Future of 'the Global Kingdom': Post-Unionism, Post-Nationalism and the Politics of Voice, Loyalty and Exit; Gerry Hassan 3. 'England is the country and the country is England': But what of the politics?; Arthur Aughey PART II: ENGLAND IN ENGLISH LITERATURE'S CANON 4. Romantic Englishness: Periodical Writing and National Identity after the Napoleonic Wars; David Higgins 5. 'Out-of way Asiatic disease': Contagion, Malingering and Sherlock's England; Pablo Mukherjee 6. A. J. Cook, D. H. Lawrence and Revolutionary England: Discourses and Performances of Region and Nation in 1926; Simon Featherstone 7. 'England am I …': Eugenics, Devolution, and Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts; John Brannigan 8. Orwell's England and Blair's Britain: Warm Beer and Cold Wars; Willy Maley 9. Anticipating the Neoliberal Nation: Philip Larkin and the Displacement of Englishness; Graham MacPhee PART III: ENGLAND'S CONTEMPORARY LITERARY LANDSCAPE 10. J.G. Ballard's Traumatised and Traumatising Englishness; Philip Tew 11. England, Devolution and Fictional Kingdoms; Christine Berberich 12. Black English Writing and Post-British England; John McLeod 13. Devolution and Cultural Catch-Up: Decoupling England and its Literature from English Literature; Hywel Dix PART IV: ENGLISH LITERATURE AS BRITISH IDEOLOGY 14. English Literature as Ideology; Michael Gardiner 15. The New Rise and Fall of English Literature; Claire Westall Afterword; Anthony Barnett Bibliography