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Out of Place: Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of Identity by Ian Baucom

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4.0

Read this as a resource for one of my PhD thesis chapters which looks at the construct of Englishness. The text is extremely accessible and Baucom provides an insightful argument covering national and international perceptions of Englishness cited in texts from Ruskin, Naipaul, and Rushdie.
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