Englishness and National Culture

<p>In this highly engaging book Antony Easthope examines 'Englishness' as a form and a series of shared discourses. Discussing the subject of 'nation' - a growing area in literary and cultural studies - Easthope offers polemical arguments written in a lively and accessible style. <em>Englishness and National Culture</em> asserts a profound and unacknowledged continuity between the seventeenth century and today. It argues that contemporary journalists historians novelists poets and comedians continue to speak through the voice of a long-standing empiricist tradition.</p>