‘Nostalgia is the English Disease' — or is it? Jonathan Coe's Middle England (2018)
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2024-2018" target="_blank" >10.1515/zaa-2024-2018</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
‘Nostalgia is the English Disease' — or is it? Jonathan Coe's Middle England (2018)
Original language description
In common understanding, nostalgia is a past-oriented attitude that makes people turn their backs on the present and glorify former times. It leads to a self-indulgent 'ossification' of one's thoughts and results in escapism and the break with contemporary reality. Jonathan Coe's Middle England, one of the first English Brexit novels, is deeply steeped in the past and in certain forms of nostalgia that greatly contribute to the novel's overall atmosphere. One of these forms, the hankering after England's glorious past and the lost Empire, may easily be related to Brexit. This type of nostalgia, however, which contributed to England's leaving of the European Union, is only one form of nostalgia which Coe makes use of. What I want to show is that there is another type of nostalgia in the novel that is future-oriented and filled with positive social and psychological energies. It is this type of nostalgia that characterizes most of Coe's protagonists and that is responsible for the structure of his novel.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60204 - General literature studies
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
ISSN
0044-2305
e-ISSN
2196-4726
Volume of the periodical
72
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
17
Pages from-to
407-423
UT code for WoS article
001368025800011
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85213368802