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Originally Posted by Mike L
What a lot of confusion here.
Let's get this clear. The story refers to a decision by the English Dept. of Education and the English exam board. Not British. Not United Kingdom (in that respect, the title of this thread is wrong). It's concerns books taught in English literature courses in England.
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The inference here is incorrect. You are stating that this is a course for English in England, not Britain or the UK, so therefore you seem to be inferring that they are OK in focusing on works from England in particular. In the very first sentence of the article it states that (bold mine) "the education secretary called for more
British works to be studied." And later on one category mentioned is (again bold mine) "post-1914 fiction or drama written in
the British Isles". Never in the article is a focus on England in particular mentioned.
And if you are still uncertain, it would be very strange to have an England Literature course (substituting the country name to make it explicitly clear) and then include, as they have, "a 19th century novel written anywhere".
This is an English
Language Literature course that, since it is in the UK, some want to focus on more British works and less American ones, which is the matter up for debate.