books.google.co.uk - Performing Englishness examines the conflicts, dilemmas and contradictions that marked Englishness as the nation changed from an imperial power to a postcolonial state. The chapters deal with travel writing, popular song, music hall and variety theatre, dances, elocution lessons, cricket and football,...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Englishness.html?id=IozE44HGLOYC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareEnglishness
