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Literary Politics

The Politics of Literature and the Literature of Politics

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  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Deborah Philips

    1. University of Brighton, UK

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  2. Katy Shaw

    1. University of Brighton, UK

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: The Politics of Literature and the Literature of Politics

    • Deborah Philips
    Pages 1-13

  3. Literature and Politics

    • Stuart Laing
    Pages 15-24

  4. Shakespeare v. The BNP

    • Adam Hansen
    Pages 25-43

  5. Roaring Boys and Weeping Men: Radical Masculinity in Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi

    • Kate Aughterson
    Pages 45-63

  6. Having the Last Word: World War I Fictions as Counter-Narratives

    • Zacharoula Christopoulou
    Pages 65-76

  7. ‘Show an Affirming Flame’: Writers and Readers in Modern Dark Times

    • Rosalind Brunt
    Pages 77-94

  8. Literature, Politics and History

    • Paddy Maguire
    Pages 95-115

  9. The Politics of Nostalgia in the Rural English Novel

    • Dominic Head
    Pages 117-135

  10. (Re)Writing the 1984–1985 UK Miners’ Strike

    • Katy Shaw
    Pages 137-152

  11. Can the Environment be Saved? Post-Apocalyptic Children’s Novels of the 1980s

    • Dave Simpson
    Pages 153-163

  12. Access All Areas? Literature and Education

    • Steve Roberts
    Pages 165-179

  13. The Politics of Enhancement: The Last Days of the English Subject Centre

    • Ben Knights
    Pages 181-193

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 195-207
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Brighton, UK

    Deborah Philips, Katy Shaw

About the editors

Kate Aughterson, University of Brighton, UK Rosalind Brunt, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Zacharoula Christopoulou, University College, London, UK Adam Hansen, Northumbria University, UK Dominic Head, University of Nottingham, UK Ben Knights taught at the universities of Cambridge, Durham and Teesside, UK Stuart Laing, University of Brighton, UK Paddy Maguire, University of Brighton, UK Deborah Philips, University of Brighton, UK Katy Shaw, University of Brighton, UK Dave Simpson, University of Brighton, UK

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