Introduction / Claire Westall and Michael Gardiner
Part I: The politics of English independence
1. Understanding the Post-British English Nation State / Andrew Mycock
2. The Future of 'the Global Kingdom': Post-Unionism, Post-Nationalism and the Politics of Voice, Loyalty and Exit / Gerry Hassan
3. 'England is the country and the country is England': But what of the politics? / Arthur Aughey
Part II: England in English literature's canon
4. Romantic Englishness: Periodical Writing and National Identity after the Napoleonic Wars / David Higgins
5. 'Out-of-the-way Asiatic disease': Contagion, Malingering and Sherlock's England / Pablo Mukherjee
6. A.J. Cook, D.H. Lawrence and Revolutionary England: Discourses and Performances of Region and Nation in 1926 / Simon Featherstone
7. 'England am I ... ': Eugenics, Devolution, and Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts / John Brannigan
8. Orwell's England and Blair's Britain: Warm Beer and Cold War / Willy Maley
9. Anticipating the Neoliberal Nation: Philip Larkin and the Displacement of Englishness / Graham MacPhee
Part III: England's contemporary literary landscape
10. J.G. Ballard's Traumatised and Traumatising Englishness / Philip Tew
11. England, Devolution and Fictional Kingdoms / Christine Berberich
12. Black English Writing and Post-British England / John McLeod
13. Devolution and Cultural Catch-Up: Decoupling England and its Literature from English Literature / Hywel Dix
Part IV: English literature as British ideology
14. English Literature as Ideology / Michael Gardiner
15. The New Rise and Fall of English Literature / Claire Westall
Afterword; Anthony Barnett
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