The Rise of English Culture
| Author | : Edwin Johnson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 744 |
| Release | : 1904 |
| Genre | : Civilization, English |
| ISBN | : |
The Rise Of English Culture
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The Rise of English
| Author | : Rosemary C. Salomone |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 489 |
| Release | : 2022 |
| Genre | : English language |
| ISBN | : 0190625619 |
A sweeping account of the global rise of English and the high-stakes politics of languageSpoken by a quarter of the world's population, English is today's lingua franca- - its common tongue. The language of business, popular media, and international politics, English has become commodified for its economic value and increasingly detached from any particular nation. This meteoric "riseof English" has many obvious benefits to communication. Tourists can travel abroad with greater ease. Political leaders can directly engage their counterparts. Researchers can collaborate with foreign colleagues. Business interests can flourish in the global economy.But the rise of English has very real downsides as well. In Europe, imperatives of political integration and job mobility compete with pride in national language and heritage. In the United States and England, English isolates us from the cultural and economic benefits of speaking other languages.And in countries like India, South Africa, Morocco, and Rwanda, it has stratified society along lines of English proficiency.In The Rise of English, Rosemary Salomone offers a commanding view of the unprecedented spread of English and the far-reaching effects it has on global and local politics, economics, media, education, and business. From the inner workings of the European Union to linguistic battles over influence inAfrica, Salomone draws on a wealth of research to tell the complex story of English - and, ultimately, to argue for English not as a force for domination but as a core component of multilingualism and the transcendence of linguistic and cultural borders.
The Making of English Popular Culture
| Author | : John Storey |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 275 |
| Release | : 2016-05-20 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1317519663 |
The Making of English Popular Culture provides an account of the making of popular culture in the nineteenth century. While a form of what we might describe as popular culture existed before this period, John Storey has assembled a collection that demonstrates how what we now think of as popular culture first emerged as a result of the enormous changes that accompanied the industrial revolution. Particularly significant are the technological changes that made the production of new forms of culture possible and the concentration of people in urban areas that created significant audiences for this new culture. Consisting of fourteen original chapters that cover diverse topics ranging from seaside holidays and the invention of Christmas tradition, to advertising, music and popular fiction, the collection aims to enhance our understanding of the relationship between culture and power, as explored through areas such as ‘race’, ethnicity, class, sexuality and gender. It also aims to encourage within cultural studies a renewed historical sense when engaging critically with popular culture by exploring the historical conditions surrounding the existence of popular texts and practices. Written in a highly accessible style The Making of English Popular Culture is an ideal text for undergraduates studying cultural and media studies, literary studies, cultural history and visual culture.
The Pleasures of the Imagination
| Author | : John Brewer |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 566 |
| Release | : 2013-03-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 113591236X |
The Pleasures of the Imagination examines the birth and development of English "high culture" in the eighteenth century. It charts the growth of a literary and artistic world fostered by publishers, theatrical and musical impresarios, picture dealers and auctioneers, and presented to th public in coffee-houses, concert halls, libraries, theatres and pleasure gardens. In 1660, there were few professional authors, musicians and painters, no public concert series, galleries, newspaper critics or reviews. By the dawn of the nineteenth century they were all aprt of the cultural life of the nation. John Brewer's enthralling book explains how this happened and recreates the world in which the great works of English eighteenth-century art were made. Its purpose is to show how literature, painting, music and the theatre were communicated to a public increasingly avid for them. It explores the alleys and garrets of Grub Street, rummages the shelves of bookshops and libraries, peers through printsellers' shop windows and into artists' studios, and slips behind the scenes at Drury Lane and Covent Garden. It takes us out of Gay and Boswell's London to visit the debating clubs, poetry circles, ballrooms, concert halls, music festivals, theatres and assemblies that made the culture of English provincial towns, and shows us how the national landscape became one of Britain's greatest cultural treasures. It reveals to us a picture of English artistic and literary life in the eighteenth century less familiar, but more suprising, more various and more convincing than any we have seen before.
The Rise and Fall of Meter
| Author | : Meredith Martin |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 286 |
| Release | : 2012-05-06 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 069115273X |
Why do we often teach English poetic meter by the Greek terms iamb and trochee? How is our understanding of English meter influenced by the history of England's sense of itself in the nineteenth century? Not an old-fashioned approach to poetry, but a dynamic, contested, and inherently nontraditional field, "English meter" concerned issues of personal and national identity, class, education, patriotism, militarism, and the development of English literature as a discipline. The Rise and Fall of Meter tells the unknown story of English meter from the late eighteenth century until just after World War I. Uncovering a vast and unexplored archive in the history of poetics, Meredith Martin shows that the history of prosody is tied to the ways Victorian England argued about its national identity. Gerard Manley Hopkins, Coventry Patmore, and Robert Bridges used meter to negotiate their relationship to England and the English language; George Saintsbury, Matthew Arnold, and Henry Newbolt worried about the rise of one metrical model among multiple competitors. The pressure to conform to a stable model, however, produced reactionary misunderstandings of English meter and the culture it stood for. This unstable relationship to poetic form influenced the prose and poems of Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and Alice Meynell. A significant intervention in literary history, this book argues that our contemporary understanding of the rise of modernist poetic form was crucially bound to narratives of English national culture.
The Idea of Englishness
| Author | : Professor Krishan Kumar |
| Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2015-12-28 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1472461959 |
Ideas of Englishness, and of the English nation, have become a matter of renewed interest in recent years as a result of threats to the integrity of the United Kingdom and the perceived rise of that unusual thing, English nationalism. Interrogating the idea of an English nation, and of how that might compare with other concepts of nationhood, this book’s wide-ranging, comparative and historical approach to understanding the particular nature of Englishness and English national identity, will appeal to scholars of sociology, cultural studies and history with interests in English and British national identity and debates about England’s future place in the United Kingdom.
The Economy of Prestige
| Author | : James F. English |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 444 |
| Release | : 2008-12-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780674018846 |
This is a book about one of the great untold stories of modern cultural life: the remarkable ascendancy of prizes in literature and the arts. Such prizes and the competitions they crown are almost as old as the arts themselves, but their number and power--and their consequences for society and culture at large--have expanded to an unprecedented degree in our day. In a wide-ranging overview of this phenomenon, James F. English documents the dramatic rise of the awards industry and its complex role within what he describes as an economy of cultural prestige. Observing that cultural prizes in their modern form originate at the turn of the twentieth century with the institutional convergence of art and competitive spectator sports, English argues that they have in recent decades undergone an important shift--a more genuine and far-reaching globalization than what has occurred in the economy of material goods. Focusing on the cultural prize in its contemporary form, his book addresses itself broadly to the economic dimensions of culture, to the rules or logic of exchange in the market for what has come to be called "cultural capital." In the wild proliferation of prizes, English finds a key to transformations in the cultural field as a whole. And in the specific workings of prizes, their elaborate mechanics of nomination and election, presentation and acceptance, sponsorship, publicity, and scandal, he uncovers evidence of the new arrangements and relationships that have refigured that field.
Rogues and Early Modern English Culture
| Author | : Craig Dionne |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 425 |
| Release | : 2004-04-07 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0472113747 |
A definitive collection of critical essays on the literary and cultural impact of the early modern rogue
Walking, Literature, and English Culture
| Author | : Anne D. Wallace |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : |
BL A cultural history of walking in nineteenth-century England, assessing its importance in literature and in culture at large BL Authors considered include Wordsworth, Clare, Barrett Browning, Dickens, Hardy, and George Eliot
The History of England: An Introduction to Centuries of English Culture, Kings & Queens, Key Events, Battles & More
| Author | : History Brought Alive |
| Publisher | : Thomas William |
| Total Pages | : 104 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
From The Anglo-Saxons to Brexit via Conquests, Empire & World Wars The Story of England begins over a thousand years ago when it emerged from various Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms. Over the long span of its history, England faced many enemies but by the strength of itself as a nation, it would continue to prevail. Considering its legacy and impact on the world, it comes as no surprise that stories about it are abundant. In this book we explore the magnificent history of England from its early origins to its place in the modern world. Inside you will discover poignant and factual information. Join us on a journey through a fascinating and thrilling panorama of historical events! Inside this book you will discover The History of England Timeline - 410 AD to present Telling Tales, Myths & Legends - Robin Hood, King Arthur, Jack & The Beanstalk & many more Parliament & Crown - discover the Royal Family's Unique Role in Government Kings & Queens, Henry VII, Queen Elizabeth II & many more Magna Carta, explore the 800-year legacy of this world famous document Famous figures, Shakespeare, Winston Churchill, Charles Darwin (theory of evolution) & many more The House of Tudor - how this iconic royal legacy shaped modern Britain England stands alone, history & consequences of The Second World War Brexit, Modern England & the decline of The British Empire And much, much more…, Whether you’re a scholar, a casual reader, or someone who simply hopes to have an interesting conversational topic ready to go then this is a must-read for you. Discover The History of England with This Book
