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Title: About England: a cultural history of “Englishness” & the idea of England since 1960
Author: MATLESS DAVID
Illustrator: 50 ILLUSTRATIONS
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 01/08/2023
Imprint: REAKTION
Price: $45.00
Publishing status: Active
‘England’ and ‘Englishness’ have received much attention in the twenty-first century, not least in debates over Brexit. About England explores how these concepts have been imagined since the 1960s, covering themes including politics, popular culture, geography, art, architecture, film and music.
David Matless navigates the country’s complex cultural terrain, revealing the ways in which the national is entangled with the local, the regional, the European, the international, the imperial, the post-imperial and the global. He also addresses physical landscapes, from the village and country house to the urban, suburban and industrial, and reflects on the ‘English modern’. About England uncovers the genealogy of recent cultural and political debates in England, showing how twenty-first-century concerns and anxieties have been moulded by events over the previous sixty years.
‘Scholarly yet highly accessible…Matless teases out paradoxes and inconsistencies and chips away at such symbolic high (or low) points as the Falklands War, the 2012 London Olympics and, inevitably, the 2016 Brexit vote and its ramifications.’ – Literary Review (UK)
Review: ‘Few people know more about England and Englishness than David Matless. Read About England, and treat yourself to a magical mystery tour of all that you thought you knew.’ – Robert Colls, Professor Emeritus of History, De Montfort University
Author Biography: David Matless is Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Nottingham. His many books include Landscape and Englishness (Reaktion Books, 1998, Revised Edition 2016).
ISBN: 9781789146912
Dimension: 234mm X 156mm
Edition: 01