Under English Eyes: Constructions of Europe in Early Twentieth-century British FictionRodopi, 2000 - 211 páginas British fictions of the early twentieth century appear obsessed with Europe. Various texts from E.M. Forster and D.H. Lawrence to Bram Stoker and the period's travel writing explore European spaces, constructing the European as an Other threatening the position of the English. What they constantly repeat is England's difference and the secondary role of European spaces, whose representation resembles that of colonial lands. By reading selected texts, both canonized and popular, published between 1894 and 1916, this study argues that this xenophobic construction is a sign of the pervading presence of concerns related to the maintenance of English national identity, Englishness, allegedly threatened by the European Other. By drawing on current postcolonial theory, the case studies in the volume show that the discourse on the Other produced in British writings on Europe contributes more than has been understood to the making and promoting of Englishness. The authors studied include D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Anthony Hope, Arnold Bennett, Mrs Alec Tweedie, Erskine Childers, and Joseph Conrad. The study will renew our understanding of the role of Europe in the period's cultural imagination, showing that the identities of the English are formed in encounters with different internal and external Others. |
Contenido
The Prisoner of Zenda and the Borders of Empire | 41 |
Erskine Childerss Nation | 83 |
Home and Nation in Arnold Bennetts The Old Wives Tale | 117 |
Katherine Mansfields German MOthers | 139 |
Universal Unhomeliness | 165 |
Epilogue | 193 |
Términos y frases comunes
Advanced Lady adventure appears argues becomes Bennett Bhabha body Britain British Cambridge Carruthers character Clive Bloom colonial colonialist connected construction context critique culture D. H. Lawrence defined degeneration discourse dominant E. M. Forster early twentieth-century emphasizing empire England Eric Hobsbawm Europe European explored feminine feminized fiction Finland Finnish Frau French gender Gerald German Germans at Meat Homi K Ibid ideology imagined imperial Italian italics original Joseph Conrad Katherine Mansfield landscape Lawrence's Literature London male Mansfield's masculine Modern moral narrative narrator narrator's national identity nationalist nature novel Oxford patriotic Penguin period's Philip Dodd points political position Prisoner of Zenda race racial Razumov reading representation represented role romance Routledge Rudolf Ruritania Russian Sea and Sardinia sexual shows social Sophia stories Strelsau suggested Third Space touristic tradition Travel Writing Tweedie Tweedie's twentieth century Twilight in Italy University Press Victorian Western Eyes woman women
Pasajes populares
Página 34 - If I should die, think only this of me : That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed ; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
Página 93 - The sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits; - on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Página 47 - The earth is all before me. With a heart Joyous, nor scared at its own liberty, 1 look about; and should the chosen guide Be nothing better than a wandering cloud, I cannot miss my way.
Página 17 - Pratt defines the contact zone as "the space of colonial encounters, the space in which peoples geographically and historically separated come into contact with each other and establish ongoing relations, usually involving conditions of coercion, radical inequality, and intractable conflict ... By using the term 'contact,' I aim to foreground the interactive, improvisational dimensions of colonial encounters.
Página 11 - Smith's working definition of a nation as: . ^ *a named human population sharing an historic territory, common myths and historical memories, a mass, public culture, a common economy and common legal rights and duties for all members.
Página 178 - To that end we should remember that it is the 'inter' - the cutting edge of translation and negotiation, the inbetween space — that carries the burden of the meaning of culture. It makes it possible to begin envisaging national, anti-nationalist histories of the 'people'.
Página 118 - Being home" refers to the place where one lives within familiar, safe, protected boundaries, "not being home" is a matter of realizing that home was an illusion of coherence and safety based on the exclusion of specific histories of oppression and resistance, the repression of differences, even within oneself.
Página 32 - Even now traces of its earlier condition are to be found in the old oak copses and irregular belts of timber that yet survive upon its slopes, and the hollow-trunked trees that shade so many of its pastures. The forests have departed, but some old customs of their shades remain. Many, however, linger only in a metamorphosed or disguised form. The May-Day dance, for instance, was to be discerned on the afternoon under notice, in the guise of the club revel, or 'club-walking,
Página 63 - To have such knowledge of such a thing is to dominate it, to have authority over it. And authority here means for "us...
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The Old World Journey: National Identity in Four American Novels from 1960 ... Eva Zetterberg Pettersson Vista de fragmentos - 2005 |
The Old World Journey: National Identity in Four American Novels from 1960 ... Eva Zetterberg Pettersson Vista de fragmentos - 2005 |