Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
Introduction: 'Measuring Englishness' - John McLeod
Part One: Changing Englishness in the post-war years
1. 'Modernity, Jewishness, and "Being English"' - Vic Seidler
2. 'Queen's English' - Alan Sinfield
3. 'The miasma of Englishness at home and abroad in the fifties' - Elizabeth Maslen
Part Two: Revising the myth
4. 'An activity not an attribute: Mobilising Englishness' -James Wood
5. 'The English and the European: The poetry of Geoffrey Hill' - David Gervais
6. 'A case of red herrings: Englishness in the poetry of Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes - Antony Rowland
7. 'Love that dares not speak its name: Englishness and suburbia' - Vesna Goldsworthy
8. '"Dying of England": Melancholic Englishness in Adam Thorpe's 'Still', - Ingrid Gunby
Part Three: New Englands
9. ''Bhaji on the Beach': South Asian femininity at "home" on the "English" seaside?' - Bilkis Malek
10. ''The Black Album': Hanif Kureishi's revisions of "Englishness"' - Bart Moore-Gilbert
11. 'Beyond revisions: Rushdie, newness and the end of authenticity' - Martin Corner
Postscript: 'English in transition: Swift, Faulkner and an outsider's staunch belief' - David Rogers

About the Author

David Rogers is Head of the School of Humanities, Kingston University, London oh yes. John McLeod is Lecturer in English at the University of Leeds