The Return of England in English Literature

Year 2018, Volume: 12 Issue: 1-2, 142 - 146, 28.12.2018

Hywel Dix

Abstract

The central argument presented by this book is that
representations of England and the English people have been largely absent from
the canon of English Literature because that canon was constructed on behalf of
the British state and its empire during the imperial period so that forms of
English expression were subsumed within the wider, imperialist category of
British from which they have only recently started to emerge. In order to
understand this provocative argument it is necessary to contextualise
Gardiner’s prior research before this publication. 

Keywords

The Return of England in English Literature, Michael Gardiner

References

• Michael Gardiner. The Return of England in English Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.