Brewer's Anthology Of England And The English

Description: Brewer's Anthology of England and the English is an English 'parliament of voices' - from the patriotic and laudatory to the dissident and choleric. With attention focused as never before on England - the 'sleeping partner' of a loosening Union, and the definitions of 'England' and 'Britain' under increasing scrutiny, it offers a timely, thought-provoking and richly entertaining contribution to an intensifying debate about nationhood. Drawing on an impressively wide range of historical and contemporary sources - from Bede to Betjeman, from Langland to Larkin, from Palmerston to Pink Floyd, and from Shakespeare to Schama - and encompassing extracts from novels, poems, plays, works of history, films, TV programmes, newspapers, letter and diaries, Brewer's Anthology of England and the English lays bare the attitudes, tastes, obsessions and prejudices of the English as they have developed over 1500 years of history.



Contents: Questions of identity; "Dear Old, Bloody Old England"; the free born English; a touch of class; "A People Not Used to War"; religio Anglicorum; educated in the holidays; the English way of sex, and so on; playing the game; essentially English - an A to Z; postscript - whither England?



Author Biography: David Milsted has compiled a number of quotations and general reference titles, including The Cassell Dictionary of Regrettable Quotations (1999) and The Chronicle of the 20th Century in Quotations (2000)..


Includes over 1500 quotations and extracts, presented in ten thematic chapters. Includes numerous extracts from England's greatest writers. Lays bare the tastes, attitudes, obsessions and prejudices of the English. A timely contribution to an ongoing national debate. A big browsable book to enjoy with a glass of your favourite Scotch on a winter's evening.