Literary Politics

Literary Politics identifies and debates competing definitions of 'English Studies' as an academic subject, celebrates the diversity of contemporary literary studies, and demonstrates the ways in which a range of literary texts can be understood as politically engaged, sometimes in unexpected ways.

Autorentext
Kate Aughterson, University of Brighton, UK Rosalind Brunt, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Zacharoula Christopoulou, University College, London, UK Adam Hansen, Northumbria University, UK Dominic Head, University of Nottingham, UK Ben Knights taught at the universities of Cambridge, Durham and Teesside, UK Stuart Laing, University of Brighton, UK Paddy Maguire, University of Brighton, UK Deborah Philips, University of Brighton, UK Katy Shaw, University of Brighton, UK Dave Simpson, University of Brighton, UK

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Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: The Politics of Literature and the Literature of Politics; Deborah Philips 1. Literature and Politics; Stuart Laing 2. Shakespeare v The BNP; Adam Hansen 3. Roaring Boys and Weeping Men: Radical Masculinity in Webster's The Duchess of Malfi; Kate Aughterson 4. Having the last word: World War I fictions as counter-narratives; Zacharoula Christopoulou 5. 'Show an Affirming Flame': writers and readers in modern dark times; Rosalind Brunt 6. Literature, Politics And History; Paddy Maguire 7. The Politics of Nostalgia in the Rural English Novel; Dominic Head 8. (Re)Writing the 1984-5 UK Miners' Strike; Katy Shaw 9. Can the environment be saved? Post-apocalyptic children's novels of the 1980s; Dave Simpson 10. The politics of enhancement: the last days of the English Subject Centre; Ben Knights Bibliography Index