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From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Minimal cracked binding. Crease on spine. Otherwise in very good condition. - Content: Introduction: narrating the nation - Homi K. Bhabha; What is a nation? - Ernest Renan; Tribes within nations: the ancient Germans and the history of modem France - Martin Thom; The national longing for form - Timothy Brennan; Irresistible romance: the foundational fictions of Latin America - Doris Sommer; Denaturalizing cultural nationalisms: multicultural readings of�Australia� -Sneja Gunew; Postal politics and the institution of the nation - Geoffrey Bennington; Literature � Nationalism�s other? The case for revision - Simon During; Sir Joshua Reynolds and the Englishness of English art - John Barrell; Destiny made manifest: the styles of Whitman�s poetry - David Simpson; Breakfast in America � Uncle Toni�s cultural histories; Rachel Bowlby; Telescopic philanthropy: professionalism and responsibility in Bleak House - Bruce Robbins; European pedigrees/African contagions: nationality, narrative, and communality in Tutuola, Achebe, and Reed - James Snead; English reading - Francis Mulhern; The island and the aeroplane: the case of Virginia Woolf - Gillian Beer; DissemiNation: time, narrative, and the margins of the modem nation - Hawi K Bhabha. ISBN 9780415014830