Anglo-Saxonism and the Construction of Social Identity - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0813015324 ISBN 13: 9780813015323

Verlag: University Press of Florida, 1997

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Contributors to this volume explore Anglo-Saxonism as a set of beliefs and cultural practices that posits a unity among English-speakers based on their common racial, linguistic, and institutional descent from the people of Anglo-Saxon England. Value has often been set on such heritage, for Anglo-Saxonism asserts the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon people and sees their institutions as models of good government, commercial prosperity and piety. In an examination of Anglo-Saxonism in a variety of forms and in several different periods of English and American literary history, the authors investigate how the Anglo-Saxons themselves thought about the origins of national and racial identity. By linking current theoretical studies to the early manifestations of Anglo-Saxonism, they seek to contribute to the ""new mediaevalisms"" - theoretically aware, institutionally focussed, and interdisciplinary mediaeval studies - that are transforming the academy.

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• Verlag: University Press of Florida
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0813015324
• ISBN 13: 9780813015323
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
• Herausgeber: Frantzen Allen J., Niles John D.