English Butter
David Trotter, 9 October 1986
Englishness: Politics and Culture 1880-1920
edited by Robert Colls and Philip Dodd.
Croom Helm, 378 pp., £25, June 1986,0 7099 0849 0 Show More
edited by Robert Colls and Philip Dodd.
Croom Helm, 378 pp., £25, June 1986,
The Character Factory: Baden-Powell and the Origins of the Boy Scout Movement
by Michael Rosenthal.
Collins, 335 pp., £15, August 1986,0 00 217604 1 Show More
by Michael Rosenthal.
Collins, 335 pp., £15, August 1986,
Oxford and Empire: The Last Lost Cause?
by Richard Symonds.
Macmillan, 366 pp., £29.50, July 1986,0 333 40206 5 Show More
by Richard Symonds.
Macmillan, 366 pp., £29.50, July 1986,
“... instead of casting a shadow over us, will exist only in the shadow cast by our search for origins. Peter Brooker and Peter Widdowson’s thorough survey of fictions of Englishness casts a shadow of this kind. It rests on a theory of the relation between literature and ideology developed in the 1970s: the function of ideology ... ”