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This issue of Études britanniques contemporaines explores the posterity of the ‘State of England novel’ category to understand how 20th– and 21st–century British literature and visual arts have addressed the social and political reality of Britain. More specifically even, the articles gathered here...

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Main Author: Catherine Bernard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2015-11-01
Series:Études Britanniques Contemporaines
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/2603
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description This issue of Études britanniques contemporaines explores the posterity of the ‘State of England novel’ category to understand how 20th– and 21st–century British literature and visual arts have addressed the social and political reality of Britain. More specifically even, the articles gathered here try to understand how fiction, drama, poetry or visual culture have contributed to imagine the nation’s sense of identity in all its diversity and fluidity. Representation is analysed as a form of collective intelligence, working self reflexively to embody the body politics in its full historicity.
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Introduction
Études Britanniques Contemporaines
British literature
modernism
representation
‘State of England novel’
historicity
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modernism
representation
‘State of England novel’
historicity
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