In this highly engaging book Antony Easthope examines Englishness as a formand a series of shared discourses. Discussing the subject of nation agrowing area in... » 

In this highly engaging book Antony Easthope examines Englishness as a formand a series of shared discourses. Discussing the subject of nation agrowing area in literary and cultural studies Easthope offers polemicalarguments written in a lively and accessible style. Englishness and NationalCulture asserts a profound and unacknowledged continuity between theseventeenth century and today. It argues that contemporary journalistshistorians novelists poets and comedians continue to speak through the voiceof a longstanding empiricist tradition. «