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Brewer's Anthology of England and the English David Milsted

Brewer's Anthology of England and the English By David Milsted

Brewer's Anthology of England and the English by David Milsted


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Summary

A stunning anthology that reveals the essence of Englishness through an eclectic array of quotations and longer extracts. 'The selections in this book have been made with great originality and thoroughness ... a work that most people ought to rejoice at finding in their Christmas stockings.' Simon Heffer, Spectator

Brewer's Anthology of England and the English Summary

Brewer's Anthology of England and the English by David Milsted

Brewer's Anthology of England and the English is an English 'parliament of voices' - from the patriotic and laudatory to the dissident and choleric. With attention focused as never before on England - the 'sleeping partner' of a loosening Union, and the definitions of 'England' and 'Britain' under increasing scrutiny, it offers a timely, thought-provoking and richly entertaining contribution to an intensifying debate about nationhood. Drawing on an impressively wide range of historical and contemporary sources - from Bede to Betjeman, from Langland to Larkin, from Palmerston to Pink Floyd, and from Shakespeare to Schama - and encompassing extracts from novels, poems, plays, works of history, films, TV programmes, newspapers, letter and diaries, Brewer's Anthology of England and the English lays bare the attitudes, tastes, obsessions and prejudices of the English as they have developed over 1500 years of history.

About David Milsted

David Milsted has compiled a number of quotations and general reference titles, including The Cassell Dictionary of Regrettable Quotations (1999) and The Chronicle of the 20th Century in Quotations (2000)..

Table of Contents

Questions of identity; Dear Old, Bloody Old England; the free born English; a touch of class; A People Not Used to War; religio Anglicorum; educated in the holidays; the English way of sex, and so on; playing the game; essentially English - an A to Z; postscript - whither England?

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GOR001952267
9780304365944
0304365947
Brewer's Anthology of England and the English by David Milsted
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Orion Publishing Co
20030717
532
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