Being English: Narratives, Idioms, and Performances of National Identity from Coleridge to Trollope

Drawing on recent developments concerning national identity in post-Marxist criticism and Derridean philosophy, Wolfreys (literature, history, University of Luton) looks at the ways in which literature is used to represent the English middle-classes to themselves, using texts by Coleridge, Wordsworth, Arnold, Gaskell, Collins, Eliot, and Trollope. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.