
This widely-praised book looks at the rise and fall of 'Britishness' in literature over the last three centuries. Arguing that for much of its history the subject of 'English Literature' has been bound up with an assumed English cultural centre, Devolving English Literature...

Devolving English Literature questions the manner in which an assumed English cultural center has controlled the way we read since the eighteenth century. It interrogates the Anglocentricity of the subject of "English Literature," demonstrating how it has governed our reading...

Discussing English, American, Irish, Australian, and other writings, Crawford concentrates on Scottish literature, which furnishes the most extended and acute model of a culture concerned to maintain and develop its own identity while engaging with England's linguistic and...