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Cambridge Themes in British Literature and Culture puts urgent contemporary questions into historical perspective. The series asks what literature can tell us about how we got to where we are, and what can be learnt from how writers of the past grappled with the pressing issues of their time. In an age of cultural amnesia, these volumes examine the backstory: exploring the origins of ideas, questions and anxieties that shaped, and continue to shape, the national imaginary. From the writing of crisis to that of consolidation, the series reveals the role played by literature in the mediation and management of cultural change.

  • General Editors: Gill Plain, University of St Andrews

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2 results in Cambridge Themes in British Literature and Culture

Europe in British Literature and Culture
  • Edited by Petra Rau, William T. Rossiter
  • Published online:
    06 June 2024
    Print publication:
    13 June 2024
  • How has Europe shaped British literature and culture – and vice versa – since the Middle Ages? This volume offers nuanced answers to this question. From the High Renaissance to haute cuisine, from the Republic of Letters to the European Union, from the Black Death to Brexit -- the reader gains insights into the main geographical zones of influence, shared intellectual movements, indicative modes of cultural transfer and more recent conflicts that have left their mark on the British-European relationship. The story that emerges from this long history of cultural interactions is much more complex than its most recent political episode might suggest. This volume offers indispensable contexts to the manifold and longstanding connections between British and European literature and culture. This book suggests that, however the political landscape develops, we will do well to bear this exceptionally rich history in mind.

The Nation in British Literature and Culture
  • Edited by Andrew Murphy
  • Published online:
    20 July 2023
    Print publication:
    10 August 2023
  • The Nation and British Literature and Culture charts the emergence of Britain as a political, social and cultural construct, examining the manner in which its constituent elements were brought together through a process of amalgamation and conquest. The fashioning of the nation through literature and culture is examined, as well as counter narratives that have sought to call national orthodoxies into question. Specific topics explored include the emergence of a distinctively national literature in the early modern period; the impact of French Revolution on conceptions of Britishness; portrayals of empire in popular and literary fiction; popular music and national imagining; the marginalisation and oppression of particular communities within the nation. The volume concludes by asking what implications an extended set of contemporary crises have for the ongoing survival both of the United Kingdom, both as a political unit and as a literary and cultural point of identity.