English Journeys:  National and Cultural Identity in 1930s and 1940s England
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

vii

Introduction: A Changing Landscape

1

Chapter 1: Setting out on an English Journey

17

Chapter 2: Nostalgia, Preservation, and Reform

63

Chapter 3: Defending the Batsford Country

109

Chapter 4: Here’s England

155

Chapter 5: George Orwell’s Revolutionary Englishness

185

Chapter 6: John Betjeman’s Personal Englands

235

Chapter 7: J. B. Priestley’s War Aims

271

Epilogue: An Ongoing Journey

323

Suggested Further Reading

333

Bibliography

337

Index

347