The" Backbone of England": History, Memory, Landscape, and the Fordian Reconstruction of Englishness

T Loeffler - Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 2011 - utexaspressjournals.org
T Loeffler
Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 2011utexaspressjournals.org
This, Tietjens thought, is England! A man and a maid walk through Kentish grass fields: the
grass ripe for the scythe. The man honourable, clean, upright; the maid virtuous, clean,
vigorous [...].“God's England!” Tietjens exclaimed to himself in high good humour.“Land of
Hope and Glory”[...].
This, Tietjens thought, is England! A man and a maid walk through Kentish grass fields: the grass ripe for the scythe. The man honourable, clean, upright; the maid virtuous, clean, vigorous [...].“God’s England!” Tietjens exclaimed to himself in high good humour.“Land of Hope and Glory”[...].
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