Scholarcast 24: England Versus English Literature UCD Scholarcast - Series 4: Reconceiving the British Isles: The Literature of the Archipelago

This presentation looks at the relationship between England and the British discipline of English Literature, whose origin, it argues, owes much to the state unification of Britain between 1790 and 1815, particularly informed by an anti-French-Revolutionary Burkean philosophy which was defined by opposition to a written constitution, and by opposition to the national.