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How ‘English’ is English Literature?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Derek Brewer
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Extract

What do we understand nowadays by the traditional phrase ‘English literature’? Is it the literature of England and England alone, or of the whole British Isles when English is used, or does it cover the literature of all the world when that literature is cast in English?

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English Today , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , January 1985 , pp. 39 - 42
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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