Literature Of An Independent England: Revisions Of England, Englishness, And English Literature

Literature of an Independent England Also by Claire Westall CROSS-GENDERED LITERARY VOICES (ed. with Rina Kim) Also by Michael Gardiner THE RETURN OF ENGLAND IN ENGLISH LITERATURE THE CONSTITUTION OF ENGLISH LITERATURE THE CULTURAL ROOTS OF BRITISH DEVOLUTION SCOTTISH LITERATURE AND POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE (ed. with Niall O’Gallagher and Graeme Macdonald) Literature of an Independent England Revisions of England, Englishness, and English Literature Edited by Claire Westall Lecturer, Department of English and Related Literature, University of York and Michael Gardiner Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick Selection, introduction and editorial matter © Claire Westall and Michael Gardiner 2013 Individual chapters © Respective authors 2013 Afterword © Anthony Barnett 2013 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2013 978-1-137-03523-3 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2013 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-44219-5 ISBN 978-1-137-03524-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137035240 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Contents Acknowledgements vii Notes on Contributors viii Introduction Claire Westall and Michael Gardiner 1 Part I The Politics of English Independence 1 Understanding the Post-British English Nation State Andrew Mycock 15 2 The Future of ‘the Global Kingdom’: Post-Unionism, Post-Nationalism and the Politics of Voice, Loyalty, and Exit Gerry Hassan 31 3 ‘England Is the Country and the Country Is England’: But What of the Politics? Arthur Aughey 46 Part II England in English Literature’s Canon 4 Romantic Englishness: Periodical Writing and National Identity After the Napoleonic Wars David Higgins 63 5 ‘Out-of-the-Way Asiatic Disease’: Contagion, Malingering, and Sherlock’s England Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee 77 6 A. J. Cook, D. H. Lawrence, and Revolutionary England: Discourses and Performances of Region and Nation in 1926 Simon Featherstone 91 7 ‘England Am I . . . ’: Eugenics, Devolution, and Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts John Brannigan 8 Orwell’s England and Blair’s Britain: War