Download or read book Being English written by Julian Wolfreys and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1994-09-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on recent developments concerning national identity in post-Marxist criticism and Derridean philosophy, Wolfreys looks at the ways in which literature is used to represent the English middle-classes to themselves, using texts by Coleridge, Wordsworth, Arnold, Gaskell, Collins, Eliot, and Trollope.