Search for dissertations about: "cross-dressing"

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2. 1. Peter Ackroyd and the Borders of Englishness

   Author : Heli Dahlin; Ashleigh Harris; Sheila Ghose; Susana Onega; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : Peter Ackroyd; Englishness; literary canon; performativity; normativity; cross-dressing; culture wars; postcolonial melancholia; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

   Abstract : Since the dissolution of the British Empire, anxiety about the loss of Englishness has circulated at various sites of public discourse in Britain: politics, the media, education, culture and literature. This study investigates the configuration and representation of Englishness in Peter Ackroyd’s writing as exemplary of this anxiety. READ MORE