English Journey Research Articles

English Desires at an English‐Medium Instruction University: The Journeys of First‐Year Students in Hong Kong

AbstractThis study used the concept of desire in language learning to explore the first‐year English journeys of undergraduates at an English‐medium instruction (EMI) university in Hong Kong. Desire in language learning is an underexplored area in EMI research but a relevant concept for gaining a multilayered picture of the incentives and pressures of English. Using a collaborative research design, the study offers an account of 10 first‐year students with an IELTS band of approximately 5.5, lower than the institution's average. Thirty written reflections and 30 semi‐structured interviews formed the main data collection, gathered over the academic year. Thematic analysis showed that the learners desired more connection and confidence with English so that they could access academic and professional opportunities and identities. They desired a new English experience in which they could interact authentically and gain acceptance of their English skills. They encountered pressure and frustration with the EMI experience, ultimately making compromises in their imagined trajectories with English. Their strong desires for English, however, remained intact. The study shows the need for a well‐architected English experience for universities to fulfill the promises of EMI, especially for learners in the lower bands of English proficiency expected for EMI study.

L2 CONFIDENCE DEVELOPMENT OF ELF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS IN TAIWAN

Second Language (L2) confidence is considered an affective variable for L2 users to claim ownership of English. However, the findings of previous studies could not be generalized to international students in a non-English-speaking context like Taiwan since English mainly functions as a lingua franca among individuals with diverse first languages. This study investigated three international students' development of L2 confidence while they were studying in Taiwanese universities. Qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted on personal background, experiences, critical events, and personal evaluation of their L2 confidence. The interviews were transcribed, coded, and then analyzed in thematic narratives. Specific situations that affected this dynamic L2 confidence development were identified and probed deeper. The findings showed that the three participants seemed more confident in an English as Lingua Franca (ELF) community where local students were absent. Native Speaker (NS)-norms still dominated their English journey, and their confidence level greatly hinged on their NS-based proficiency. The ideology of following the NS English model threatened L2 confidence in ELF interactions. Furthermore, the participants’ perception of their nonnative speaker (NNS) identity might make them less confident. The findings contribute to the pedagogical implications for L2 learners, users and teachers.

Seaside Resort Blues

In the interwar period, seaside holidays had become accessible to more people in the United Kingdom than ever before. It was not least the unapologetic hedonism of the working classes that gave places like Blackpool and Scarborough their vibrant energy. However, a notable number of English travelogues in the 1930s depict seaside resorts as overcrowded, vulgar, debilitating, and in fact un-English. During the years in which the UK faced the rising threat of fascism, the seaside became a site where ideas of Englishness, popular culture, and masculinity came under scrutiny. In my paper, I explore these ambivalent constructions of the English seaside resort, from J. B. Priestley’s English Journey to the collection Beside the Seaside, in which women authors, including Yvonne Cloud and Kate O’Brian, celebrate the seaside as a catalyst of female agency. (VR)

Working, travelling, and identity: J.B. Priestley’s English Journey (1934)

ABSTRACT The motivation for travel is central to its form and content. This article addresses an under-represented area of travel writing: the travel text that results from a journey undertaken for work purposes. By considering J. B. Priestley’s English Journey as a case-study, it argues that the text’s critical reception, at first disorientated and confused, and later dominated by historical and political readings, has resulted from Priestley’s emphasis on work rather than leisure. In his text Priestley explores the relationship of work and identity, and his own position as writer and traveller is central to this, symbolised in his preoccupation with the figure of the travelling salesman.

Unlikely Pilgrim: The English Journey of Zilpha Elaw

Unlikely Pilgrim: The English Journey of Zilpha Elaw

‘To Tell the Truth’: Locating Authenticity in J. B. Priestley’s English Journey

This article offers a re-reading of J. B. Priestley’s English Journey (1934), focusing on ways in which the book deploys shifting notions of authenticity in response to a background of economic and social upheaval and a burgeoning mass culture. I suggest ways in which Priestley’s text transgresses those generic categories from which it might otherwise be seen to emerge, engaging contemporary history and culture by means that extend beyond the delimiting constraints such categories imply. Ultimately, I argue that the version of authenticity present within English Journey emerges from a multi-faceted vision of the good, which is discernible only at the intersection of competing visions of the nation and its people and is one which, crucially, can be accommodated within modernity.

Montaigne's English journey: reading the Essays in Shakespeare's day

Introduction: Edified by the Margin Florio's Theatrical Montaigne Sexuality and Censorship in the Essayes On the Tyranny of 'Custome': Ideology and Appropriation From an English Montaigne to The Dutch Courtesan: Common Customers Montaignian Conscience and the Shakespearean God-Surrogate Maximising Montaigne Afterword: English Readership in the Wake of the Essayes Appendix A: British Library, Egerton MS 2982, Folios 22r-29v Appendix B: Folger Shakespeare Library, MS V.a.281, Folios 15r-34v Appendix C: British Library, Sloane MS 2903, Folios 1r-12r Appendix D: Census of Extant Seventeenth-Century Copies of Florio's Montaigne

WILLIAM M. HAMLIN. Montaigne's English Journey: Reading the Essays in Shakespeare's Day.

WILLIAM M. HAMLIN. Montaigne's English Journey: Reading the Essays in Shakespeare's Day.

Book Reviews: Sin and Filth in Medieval Culture: The Devil in the Latrine, God's Only Daughter: Spenser's Una as the Invisible Church, Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity, the Elizabethan Top Ten: Defining Print Popularity in Early Modern England, Montaigne's English Journey, the Truth about William Shakespeare: Fact, Fiction and Modern Biographies, Reviewing Shakespeare: Journalism and Performance from the Eighteenth Century to

Book Reviews: Sin and Filth in Medieval Culture: The Devil in the Latrine, God's Only Daughter: Spenser's Una as the Invisible Church, Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity, the Elizabethan Top Ten: Defining Print Popularity in Early Modern England, Montaigne's English Journey, the Truth about William Shakespeare: Fact, Fiction and Modern Biographies, Reviewing Shakespeare: Journalism and Performance from the Eighteenth Century to

Review: Brutalism: Post-war British Architecture by Alexander Clement; Neo-avant-garde and Postmodern: Postwar Architecture in Britain and Beyond by Mark Crinson and Claire Zimmerman, editors; A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain by Owen Hatherley

Alexander Clement. Brutalism: Post-war British Architecture . Wiltshire, England: The Crowood Press, 2011, 160 pp., 150 color illus. £19.95 (cloth), ISBN 9781847972309 Mark Crinson and Claire Zimmerman, editors. Neo-avant-garde and Postmodern: Postwar Architecture in Britain and Beyond . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010, 420 pp., 103 illus. incl. 76 in color. $65 (cloth), ISBN 9780300166187 Owen Hatherley. A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain . London and New York: Verso Books, 2010, 369 pp., $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 9781844676514 “For many years since the war we have continued in our habit of debasing the coinage of M. le Corbusier and have created a style—‘Contemporary’—easily recognizable by its misuse of traditional materials and its veneer of ‘modern’ details, frames, recessed plinths, decorative piloti,” Theo Crosby wrote in a 1955 editorial on the New Brutalism.1 For Crosby, “contemporary” functioned as shorthand for a bastardized version of modernism—a modernism that had already been liquidated of its ideals and reduced to nothing more than a style for up-to-date living. As an antidote to such degradation, Crosby positioned New Brutalism as an archaeology of the modern movement that would include a rigorous reevaluation of its key architects—Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe in particular—as well as a thorough reexamination of its programs and intents. New Brutalism, for example, would push modernism’s truth-to-materials rhetoric to its limit with its interest in the “as found” just as it would reaffirm the earlier movement’s commitment to housing and the social. Though Alison and Peter Smithson, the figureheads of New Brutalism along with the critic-historian Reyner Banham, first used the phrase in conjunction with their design for a single-family warehouse-like house for Soho, in the following years the term became most closely identified with institutional building, giving rise to schools, council flats, and city halls frequently cast of rough concrete. In an age of postwar reconstruction, Brutalism positioned itself as a new kind of civic language—more vernacular slang than received pronunciation—and in time more and more architects came to speak its language. As the word spread, however, the critical contours of Brutalism often lost their shape, and the term quickly transformed into yet another style. Indeed, Brutalism is often employed today as nothing more than a vague epithet lobbed at vast expanses of postwar institutional building—a …

Temporary American citizens? British audiences, hollywood films and the threat of Americanization in the 1920s

In March 1927, the film columnist for the Daily Express declared that British film audiences’ enjoyment of American films was inextricably linked to their appreciation of the United States itself: ...

Orwell and Englishness

Accounts of Orwell frequently emphasize the ‘Englishness’ of both the man and his writing. However, ‘Englishness’ was not merely a tradition he drew upon for the forms and values of his work, but one he reinterpreted and exploited for political purposes. His insistence that patriotism could be used by the socialist movement is a distinctive contribution to the effort by sections of the English left to reinterpret national identity and mobilize it against fascism. Orwell selected and combined established images of ‘Englishness’ to figure the English as tolerant, cohesive, and resistant to elaborate theories. His representations of England are, however, contradictory, encompassing a simultaneous commitment to the modern towns of the ‘technical experts’, the urban working class, and the rural order of his Edwardian childhood. The article explores these tensions using the model of the ‘three Englands’ outlined in Priestley's English Journey and argues that, although Orwell's texts remain diverse in their commitments, he suggests that socialism itself will resolve these tensions.

Nancy Cunard's English Journey

This essay analyses Nancy Cunard's contribution to the struggle for racial justice in England and her work with the black communities in Liverpool and London (whose histories and experiences differ radically from their counterparts in the United States) in the 1940s. It chronicles for the first time her campaign to safeguard the African collections in the Liverpool Museum and her specific contribution to the archive of black British history. This includes not only the monumental the Negro Anthology (1934) but also the tract, The White Man's Duty (1943) arguing for an end to British imperialism and for race relations legislation. Cunard is situated within a history of the Communist left in Britain and the United States. Her insistence on the primacy of race differentiates her from other white left activists in her day for whom issues of gender and race were or secondary importance compared to those of class (Cunard, 1944). Using unpublished archive material from the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas I show that Cunard's work constitutes one segment in the rich and varied mosaic of black cultural activity in the 1930s and 1940s and discuss how Cunard knew and worked alongside some of the key figures in the black British politics of her day including Una Marson, Learie Constantine, John Carter, Harold Moody, Rudolph Dunbar and Paul Robeson. A prolific writer, publisher and political activist, Cunard presented a white readership with documentation which prompted them to question their own prejudice and rendered problematic the imaging of black people as fixed embodiments of a Eurocentric sense of reality. Cunard's work in the 1930s and 1940s predates the sailing of the Empire Windrush and the accelerated immigration to Britain from the Commonwealth after the Nationality Act of 1948. It adds to our knowledge of earlier black history, narratives, settlements, and anti-racist struggles.

English Journeys: the tourist, the guidebook, and the motorcar in The Remains of the Day

English Journeys: the tourist, the guidebook, and the motorcar in The Remains of the Day

‘I Had seen a Lot of Englands’: J. B. Priestley, Englishness and the People

This article is prompted by a growing sense of puzzlement, and an irritable question: what has posterity done with J. B Priestley?1 Once upon a time, we all knew who he was: a man of the people, and a man of the left indeed, one of the founding fathers of the post-war social-democratic era. Look at English Journey (1934), at those wartime broadcasts (banned by Churchill allegedly), look at Common Wealth, at the founding of CND. Well might historian A. J. P. Taylor regard him as the prophet of a 'people's peace' and Paul Addison imagine him pursuing Colonel Blimp along the road to 1945.2 During the past decade or two, however, we have been given a new Priestley, no longer the progressive of 1945, but a conservative figure indeed, almost a reactionary. Hating modern civilization, this Priestley put forward a deeply conservative construction of 'Englishness' which echoed that of Tories like Stanley Baldwin and Arthur Bryant. Part of a self-regarding literary elite, he despised the culture of the masses with whom he affected to sympathize, even misrepresenting his origins to pose as a social critic and a man of the people. His 'little Englander' mentality prefigured Thatcherite racism, and even his apparent radicalism during the war promoted a conservative national mythology. Chris Waters sums the whole thing up: Priestley's lifelong task was to define and defend an 'essential Englishness', deeply rural and nostalgic in character, as a bulwark against

English Journey by J. B. Priestley

Book Review| January 01 1986 English Journey by J. B. Priestley English Journey. By Priestley, J. B.. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984. Pp. x, 320, 80 halftones. $24.95. Jefferson Hunter Jefferson Hunter Smith College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1986) 85 (1): 89–90. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-85-1-89 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jefferson Hunter; English Journey by J. B. Priestley. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 January 1986; 85 (1): 89–90. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-85-1-89 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsSouth Atlantic Quarterly Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press1986 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Leandro Fernandez de Moratin in England

As travel became fashionable during the eighteenth century, the Grand Tour formed a part of the training of well-educated Englishmen; and Continentals, particularly the French, returned the visits. However, comparatively few Spaniards made the journey to England. Wars, religious differences, and Spain's cultural isolation effectively separated the two countries in the first half of the century. Eventually, news of the great English philosophical, scientific, political, and economic achievements filtered into Spain through the intermediary of France. After 1750 this secondhand information was supplemented by impressions and travel accounts of a small number of Spanish visitors to England.1 Most Spaniards traveled to learn. They studied medicine, science, crafts, industrial processes (where possible), the theater, and daily life and customs, hoping to discover successful English methods to apply to the improvement of their own country. Only a handful of Spanish voyagers left written records of their English journeys. Of scant literary interest are: Joaquin Manuel Fos's (Instruccidn metddica sobre los mueres (1790),2 which concerned silk manufacture, and Manuel de Angulo's Viajes de estudios por Inglaterra durante 1788-1795,3 which dealt with commercial

FONTANE'S ENGLISH JOURNEYS

German Life and LettersVolume 6, Issue 3 p. 169-177 FONTANE'S ENGLISH JOURNEYS D. Barlow, D. BarlowSearch for more papers by this author D. Barlow, D. BarlowSearch for more papers by this author First published: April 1953 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0483.1953.tb01087.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume6, Issue3April 1953Pages 169-177 RelatedInformation

Nugent Wade i Helsingør. En engelsk præsts møde med Grundtvig og Mynster

Nugent Wade i Helsingør. En engelsk præsts møde med Grundtvig og Mynster