Britishness… Limited – National identity and citizenship in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Utopia Limited (1893)

This paper aims at studying how national identity was put into words and music by Gilbert in Sullivan in Utopia Limited (1893). Whereas the libretto reads like a mild Horatian satire of British institutions – in particular the system of corporate law, music sounds like the classical sublime eulogy o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Joël Richard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherche et d'Etudes en Civilisation Britannique 2016-07-01
Series:Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/rfcb/900