This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open
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In this extended essay, Michael Gardiner examines the ideology of
the discipline of English Literature in the light of the serious
redefining work on England and Englishness that has been conducted
in Political Studies in the last decade. He argues that English
Literature emerges from the development of the state and that
consequently it has suppressed the idea of the nation. His claim is
that English Literature has lost its form since its methodology and
canonicity depended so heavily on a constitutional form which can
no longer be defended. He calls upon those working in English
Literature to recognise that they are not really participating in
the same discipline, defined by the Burkean constitutional
settlement, even if they think of themselves as writing 'within the
canon'. His view is that a lack of appreciation of 'hard-edged'
political factors have led to a 'continuant' and regressive form of
English Literature which tends to hang on to stifling
methodologies. In its place, he appeals for the creation of a more
open-ended, inclusive, internationalist, and comparative
'literature of England'.
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