Table of Contents
Dedication Acknowledgements
Introduction: Nationalism Beyond the Nation-State Graham MacPhee & Prem Poddar
PART I: NATION AND EMPIRE
Chapter 1. "As White As Ours": Africa, Ireland, Imperial Panic, and the Effects of British Race Discourse Enda Duffy
Chapter 2. Writing About Englishness: South Africa’s Forgotten Nationalism Vivian Bickford-Smith
Chapter 3. Passports, Empire, Subjecthood Prem Poddar
Chapter 4. Friends Across the Water: British Orientalists and Middle Eastern Nationalisms Geoffrey Nash
Chapter 5. Under English Eyes: The Disappearance of Irishness in Conrad’s The Secret Agent Graham MacPhee
PART II: POSTCOLONIAL LEGACIES
Chapter 6. Brit Bomber: The Fundamentalist Trope in Hanif Kureishi’s The Black Album and "My Son the Fanatic" Sheila Ghose
Chapter 7. Crisis of Identity? Englishness, Britishness, and Whiteness Bridget Byrne
Chapter 8. Conserving Purity, Labouring the Past: A Tropological Evolution of Englishness Colin Wright
Chapter 9. All the Downtown Tories: Mourning Englishness in New York Matthew Hart
Notes on Contributors Index