A Passage to India
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Absolute war
Allegory
Alterity
Anti-Jacobin
Arts and Crafts movement
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Aziz (artist)
Benedict Anderson
Beyond a Boundary
Britishness
Capitalism and Slavery
Cartography
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Colonialism
Criticism
Cultural identity
Culture and Anarchy
Curator
Disenchantment
E. M. Forster
E. P. Thompson
Edward Said
Embarrassment
England
English law
Enoch Powell
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Ernest Renan
Frantz Fanon
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Grammar
Handbook
Ideology
Imperialism
John Ruskin
John Stuart Mill
Lytton Strachey
Modernity
Moral economy
Multitude
Narrative
Nationality
Nostalgia
Obedience (human behavior)
Of Education
Orientalism
Pedagogy
Picaresque novel
Picturesque
Poetry
Postmodernism
Raymond Williams
Rhetoric
Romanticism
Salman Rushdie
Samuel Daniel
Social criticism
Sovereignty
Suggestion
Superiority (short story)
The Far Pavilions
The Satanic Verses
The Seven Lamps of Architecture
The True-Born Englishman
The Wretched of the Earth
Thomas Carlyle
Tourism
Uncertainty
V. S. Naipaul
Victorian era
Walter Benjamin
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691004037
- Weight: 369g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 14 Feb 1999
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In a 1968 speech on British immigration policy, Enoch Powell insisted that although a black man may be a British citizen, he can never be an Englishman. This book explains why such a claim was possible to advance and impossible to defend. Ian Baucom reveals how "Englishness" emerged against the institutions and experiences of the British Empire, rendering English culture subject to local determinations and global negotiations. In his view, the Empire was less a place where England exerted control than where it lost command of its own identity. Analyzing imperial crisis zones--including the Indian Mutiny of 1857, the Morant Bay uprising of 1865, the Amritsar massacre of 1919, and the Brixton riots of 1981--Baucom asks if the building of the empire completely refashioned England's narratives of national identity. To answer this question, he draws on a surprising range of sources: Victorian and imperial architectural theory, colonial tourist manuals, lexicographic treatises, domestic and imperial cricket culture, country house fetishism, and the writings of Ruskin, Kipling, Ford Maddox Ford, Forster, Rhys, C.L.R.
James, Naipaul, and Rushdie--and representations of urban riot on television, in novels, and in parliamentary sessions. Emphasizing the English preoccupation with place, he discusses some crucial locations of Englishness that replaced the rural sites of Wordsworthian tradition: the Morant Bay courthouse, Bombay's Gothic railway station, the battle grounds of the 1857 uprising in India, colonial cricket fields, and, last but not least, urban riot zones.
Ian Baucom is the Dean of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia.
