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Genre/Form: | Literary collections |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Judy Giles; Tim Middleton |
ISBN: | 0415114411 9780415114417 041511442X 9780415114424 9780203360033 0203360036 |
OCLC Number: | 31936062 |
Description: | xi, 285 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | 1900-1950: A Chronology -- 1. J.B. Priestley, Little Englanders: From English Journey (1934) -- 2. E.M. Forster, If one wanted to show a foreigner England ... : From Howards End (1910) -- 3. W.H. Davies, England: From Our Nation's Heritage (1939) -- 4. D.H. Lawrence, I don't like England very much, but ... : From The Letters of D.H. Lawrence (1932) -- 5. E.M. Forster, Middle-class people smell: From Selected Letters of E.M. Forster: Volume 1: 1879-1920 -- 6. Phillip Gibbs, Here, then, is something of England ... : From England Speaks (1935) -- 7. J.H. Thomas, I do foresee a far happier England ... : From When Labour Rules (1920) -- 8. Arnold Bennett, An honest and naive goodwill ... in the very air of England: From The Old Wives' Tale (1908) -- 9. E.M. Forster, Why has not England a great mythology?: From Howards End (1910) -- 10. T.S. Eliot, What is part of our culture is also part of our lived religion: From Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (1948) -- 11. C.F.G. Masterman, We cannot help being interested in ourselves: From The Condition of England (1909) -- 12. Ford Madox Ford, The Englishman feels very deeply and reasons very little: From The Spirit of the People (1907) -- 13. Phillip Gibbs, The soul of England spoke again ... : From England Speaks (1935) -- 14. Sir Ernest Barker, Some Constants of the English Character: From The Character of England (1947) -- 15. Arthur Mee, The nation is a living body: From The Children's Encyclopedia -- 16. Wyndham Lewis, Dear old Great Britain has to take in partners: From The Hitler Cult (1939) -- 17. Jan Struther, Back from Abroad: From Mrs. Miniver (1939) -- 18. Edward Thomas, The Village: From The Heart of England (1906) -- 19. H.V. Morton, The fun it is to tramp from town to town ... : From In Search of England (1927) -- 20. Edmund Blunden, How much that we loved is going or gone!: From The Face of England (1932) -- 21. H.V. Morton, We may not revive the English village of the old days ... : From In Search of England (1927) -- 22. J.W. Robertson-Scott, A community which has almost always been hovel housed: From England's Green and Pleasant Land: The Truth Attempted (1925) -- 23. Stanley Baldwin, England is the country, and the country is England: From On England (1926) -- 24. J.B. Priestley, The Three Englands: From English Journey (1934) -- 25. Virginia Woolf, Her sex and class has very little to thank England for ... : From Three Guineas (1938) -- 26. Ernest Raymond, I see a death in No Man's Land to-morrow as a wonderful thing: From Tell England: A Study in a Generation (1922) -- 27. Rupert Brooke, The Soldier: From 1914 and Other Poems (1915) -- 28. Siegfried Sassoon, Memorial Tablet (1919): From Georgian Poetry -- 29. Edward Thomas, As the Team's Head Brass (c.1915): From The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas -- 30. J.B. Priestley, Talk from 21 July 1940: From All England Listened: The Wartime Broadcasts of J.B. Priestley -- 31. Mass Observation National Panel Member, Conscripts' attitudes to war politics (April 1940): From Speak for Yourself: A Mass Observation Anthology 1937-49 -- 32. Winston S. Churchill, Victory -- victory at all costs ... : From Into Battle: War Speeches by Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill (1941) -- 33. Winston S. Churchill, We shall go on to the end ... : From Into Battle: War Speeches by Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill (1941) -- 34. Herbert Morrison, Let us take stock of ourselves: From Looking Ahead: Wartime Speeches by the Right Hon. Herbert Morrison (1943) -- 35. Winston S. Churchill, VE Speeches: From Victory: War Speeches by Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill (1945) -- 36. Winston S. Churchill, Address to the King: From Victory: War Speeches by Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill (1945) -- 37. Mass Observation ATS Clerk, Diary account of VE Day From Wartime Women -- 38. Ministry of Information, Programme for film propaganda: From Documentary Newsletter (1940) -- 39. Jan Struther, From Needing Danger: From Mrs. Miniver (1939) -- 40. Newbolt Committee, The bulk of our people ... are unconsciously living starved existences: From The Teaching of English in England (1921) -- 41. Newbolt Committee, Middle-class trivialities: From The Teaching of English in England (1921) -- 42. James Bone, We make two pretty things grow where one idea grew before: From 'The Tendencies of Modern Artificial (1913) -- 43. Pont, Short story in the new manner: From The British Character: Studied and Revealed by Pont (1938) -- 44. Winifred Holtby, Mistaking the grotesque for the beautiful: From Letters to a Friend (1937) -- 45. Frank Swinnerton, Ill mannered and pretentious dilettanti: From The Georgian Literary Scene (1935) -- 46. Vita Sackville-West, The English man is seen at his best the moment that another man starts throwing a ball at him: From The Character of England (1947) -- 47. Neville Cardus, Cricket at Shastbury: From Good Days (1931) -- 48. J.B. Priestley, Sunday Evenings: From English Journey (1934) -- 49. J.B. Priestley, Blackpool: From English Journey (1934) -- 50. George Orwell, 'Boys' Weeklies: From Collected Letters, Essays and Journalism (1939) -- 51. Pearl Jephcott, Girls Growing Up: From Girls Growing Up (1943) -- 52. Ebenezer Howard, Garden Cities: From Garden Cities of Tomorrow (1902) -- 53. John Buchan, Fellows like me don't understand ... the folk that live in villas and suburbs: From The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) -- 54. Rupert Brooke, The Old Vicarage, Grantchester: From 1914 and Other Poems (1915) -- 55. Daphne du Maurier, Losing Manderley: From Rebecca (1938) -- 56. James Laver, Homes and Habits: From The Character of England (1947) -- 57. Lord Kennett, Muddleford: From The Character of England (1947) -- 58. Osbert Lancaster, English is the only language that has a word for "home": From Progress at Pelvis Bay (1936) -- 59. Stephen Taylor, The Suburban Neurosis: From the Lancet (1938) -- 60. Anonymous, Correspondence on housing estates: From the Birmingham Mail (1931) -- 61. J.B. Priestley, Rusty Lane, West Bromwich: From English Journey (1934) -- 62. D.H. Lawrence, Nottingham and the Mining Country: From the New Adelphi (1930) -- 63. H.V. Morton, What I Saw in the Slums: From Labour Party pamphlet (1933) -- 64. H.V. Morton, Wigan: From In Search of England (1927) -- Appendix: Suggested activities and further reading. |
Responsibility: | edited by Judy Giles and Tim Middleton. |
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Abstract:
What did it mean in the first half of this century to say `I am English'? This is a unique collection of extracts from 1900-1950, all of which raise this question. Draws on a range of poems, fiction, letters, diaries and journalism.
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