Literary Politics The Politics of Literature and the Literature of Politics [Hardcover]

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.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 IndexKate Aughterson, University of Brighton, UKRosalind Brunt, Sheffield Hallam University, UKZacharoula Christopoulou, University College, London, UKAdam Hansen, Northumbria University, UKDominic Head, University of Nottingham, UKBen Knights taught at the universities of Cambridge, Durham and Teesside, UKStuart Laing, University of Brighton, UKPaddy Maguire, University of Brighton, UKDeborah Philips, University of Brighton, UKKaty Shaw, University of Brighton, UKDave Simpson, University of Brighton, UK