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"The past century's culture wars that Britain has been consumed by have resulted in revised notions of Britishness and British literature. Yet literary anthologies remain anchored to an archaic Anglo-English interpretation of British literature. This generalist cultural study is a fascinating glimpse into Britain's changing identity as reflected in 20th and 21st century British literature"--Provided by publisher

Machine generated contents note: I OPENING THE FIELD -- 1 British history and 'The British history': the same old story? -- Philip Schwyzer -- 2 Revising criticism: Ireland and the British model -- Andrew Murphy --II CONTESTED PERIPHERIES -- 3 'The lost British lamb': English Catholic exiles and the problem of Britain -- Christopher Highley -- 4 Making history: Holinshed's Irish Chronicles, 1577 and 1587 -- Richard A. McCabe --III BRITISH SHAKESPEARE -- 5 Henry IV: metatheatrical Britain -- Matthew Greenfield -- 6 Uncertain unions: Welsh leeks in Henry V -- Patricia Parker -- 7 Delving to the root: Cymbeline, Scotland, and the English race -- Mary Floyd- Wilson --IV UNION QUESTIONS -- 8 Reinventing the matter of Britain: undermining the state in Jacobean masques -- Philippa Berry and Jayne Elisabeth Archer -- 9 'Mapping British identities: Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine -- Christopher Ivic --V BRITAIN'S BRAVE NEW WORLD -- 10 Bruited abroad:John White and Thomas Harriot's colonial representations of ancient Britain -- Andrew Hadfield -- 11 The commonwealth of the word: New England, Old England, and the praying Indians -- Linda Gregerson --VI RESTORING BRITAIN -- 12 Orrery's Ireland and the British problem, 1641-1679 -- John Kerrigan -- 13 Jacobite literature and national identities -- Murray Pittock -- VII HISTORIANS RESPOND -- 14 Literature and the new British and Irish histories -- Jane Ohlmeyer -- 15 Text, time, and the pursuit of 'British identities' -- Derek Hirst

Prologue: Strollers without borders -- Introduction: Britain's theatrical empire -- Peripheralizing the spheres : theatrical assemblages of the imperial provinces -- Rowe's Fair penitent as global history : colonial family strategies and the imperatives of nation -- The lure of the other : Jews, Nabobs and enslaved Africans in a transcolonial imaginary -- Performances of freedom : Jamaican Maroons in imperial transit -- Blackface empire : or, the slavery meridian -- Zanga's colony : revenge in Sydney -- Performing the wonder in Sumatra : theatrical ethnography in a New World history -- In conclusion: Napoleonic Gothic, or St. Helena as center of the British world.

The influence of British colonialism on the development of Maltese national consciousness was both positive and negative. It involved a positive relationship, namely a linguistic one between English and Maltese, which encouraged social rapport between the British colonizers and the Maltese indigenous inhabitants; and the negative relationship between the sophisticated British culture and the uncultivated popular culture of the Maltese, which deteriorated into a violent psychological confrontation between the two highly disparate nationalities and traditions. In the first decades of the nineteenth century, an indigenous Maltese literature had gradually emerged and sought recognition. The elitist cultural orientation of Europe, including Great Britain, at first hampered such a process. As Europeans gradually accepted the esthetic values of folk culture, the Maltese popular heritage was able to attain a level of dignity. This study examines the social and political factors underlying the formation of a collective Maltese national consciousness. ; N/A

chapter Introduction L ISA K A SM ER -- part PART I National Trauma/National Culture -- chapter 1 Mourning in Plain View: On Monuments, Trauma, Historical Memory, and Forgetting DI ANE LONG HOEV EL ER -- chapter 2 Nostalgia and Trauma in Thomas De Quincey's "The English Mail-Coach" I VA N ORT I Z -- part PART II Reimagining National and Colonial Trauma -- chapter 3 Mansfield Park and National (Be)longing L ISA K A SM ER -- chapter 4 Systemic Traumas and Irish Identity in Florence Macarthy ANNEFR EY -- chapter 5 Gothic Internationalism: Irish Nationalist Critiques of Empire as a System of Violence and Trauma AMYE. M A RT I N -- part PART III Trauma at Home -- chapter 6 Trauma and the Torturer: Of Monsters and Military Men at Morant Bay K AT H ER INEJ. A N der SON -- chapter 7 Men Who Would Not Be Kings: Sacrilizing Colonialist Trauma in Kipling's "Man who would be King" A N DR EAREHN -- part PART IV Sins of the Family, Sins of the Nation -- chapter 8 Trauma at the Heart of Empire: The "Sins of the Nation" and Barbauld's Eighteen Hundred and Eleven JA MESM. GA R R ET T -- chapter 9 Gothic Secretions: Deconstructing the "Family" DAV I D PU N T ER.

THE MALTESE LITERARY EXPERIENCE WAS A COHERENT SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS MOVEMENT THAT IMPELLED THE MALTESE TO AFFIRM THEIR IDENTITY AND TO SEEK THE NECESSARY MEANS TO ACHIEVE CONSTITUTIONAL EMANCIPATION. LITERATURE ALSO SERVED AS A STRATEGIC OPPOSITIONAL INSTRUMENT AGAINST THE COLONIAL GOVERNMENT AND PRESENTED AN ALTERNATIVE WAY OF THINKING FOR A PEOPLE LANGUISHING UNDER FOREIGN RULE.

This essay is a critical reaction to the movement for the revival and constitution of guoxue (national learning), not just as a system of indigenous knowledge and scholarship, but also as an embodiment of Chinese national culture. Situating the conceptualisation of guoxue in the context of the May Fourth new cultural movement, the essay attempts to show: a) that guoxue is a category devoid of substance, not least because its classificatory scope cannot be adequately defined, b) that guoxue was invented in the early twentieth century in response to the pressures created by the influx of Western learning that had begun to unsettle and displace forms of classical learning, and c) that the idea of guoxue is rooted in the conviction of the singularity of national culture. Historically, guoxue has opposed such national projects as national language and national literature. Revisiting a selection of representative views of progressive May Fourth and communist intellectuals on the need to develop and construct a new national language and literature for China's modernisation, the essay argues for the need to develop a historical understanding of the process in which classical learning has been displaced and to recognise the importance of this process for the development of China's intellectual modernity. (China Perspect/GIGA)