Title Anglo-Saxonism and the idea of Englishness in eighteenth-century Britain / Dustin M. Frazier Wood

Published Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations Series Medievalism ; volume XVIII Medievalism (Series) ; v. 18. Contents Introduction: Anglo-Saxonism, Medievalism and the Eighteenth Century -- 1. Anglo-Saxonisms of the Early Eighteenth Century -- Anglo-Saxon Studies in the Later Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries -- Anglo-Saxonism and the Hanoverian Succession -- From Philology to Antiquarianism -- 2. Antiquaries and Anglo-Saxons -- Antiquarian Networks and Resources for Anglo-Saxon Studies -- Coins -- Artefacts -- Barrows -- Architecture -- Antiquarianism and Medievalism -- 3. Anglo-Saxon History and the English Landscape -- Histories of England -- Antiquarian Historiography -- Local History -- History, Identity and Heritage -- 4. Imaging and Imagining Anglo-Saxonness -- Antiquarian Images of Anglo-Saxon England -- Illustrating English History -- English History Delineated -- Anglo-Saxons and History Painting -- The Ancestral Portrait Gallery -- 5. Anglo-Saxonist Politics and Posterity -- Anglo-Saxonism and Gothicism -- The Anglo-Saxon Constitution -- The Legislature -- The Common Law -- Staging the Anglo-Saxon Nation -- Anglo-Saxonism and Political Identity -- Conclusion: Sharon Turner's The History of the Anglo-Saxons Summary The importance of the Anglo-Saxon past to England in the eighteenth century, politically and culturally, is here brought out A valuable addition to both our understanding of Anglo-Saxonism, and of eighteenth-century culture. Eloquently written, the book will be the key reference for any future understanding of the way in which eighteenth-century culture received the Anglo-Saxon period. David Matthews, Professor of Medieval and Medievalism Studies, University of Manchester. Long before they appeared in the pages of Ivanhoe and nineteenth-century Old English scholarship, the Anglo-Saxons had become commonplace in Georgian Britain. The eighteenth century - closely associated with Neoclassicism and the Gothic and Celtic revivals - also witnessed the emergence of intertwined scholarly andpopular Anglo-Saxonisms that helped to define what it meant to be English. This book explores scholarly Anglo-Saxon studies and imaginative Anglo-Saxonism during a century not normally associated with either. Early in the century, scholars and politicians devised a rhetoric of Anglo-Saxon inheritance in response to the Hanoverian succession, and participants in Britain's burgeoning antiquarian culture adopted simultaneously affective and scientific approaches to Anglo-Saxon remains. Patriotism, imagination and scholarship informed the writing of Enlightenment histories that presented England, its counties and its towns as Anglo-Saxon landscapes. Those same histories encouragedEnglish readers to imagine themselves as the descendants of Anglo-Saxon ancestors - as did history paintings, book illustrations, poetry and drama that brought the Anglo-Saxon past to life. Drawing together these strands of scholarly and popular medievalism, this book identifies Anglo-Saxonism as a multifaceted, celebratory and inclusive idea of Englishness at work in eighteenth-century Britain. Dustin M. Frazier Wood is a Lecturer in Englishat the University of Roehampton. -- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 12, 2020) Subject National characteristics, English. Nationalism -- England -- History Anglo-Saxon -- History Anglo-Saxon -- Historiography Anglo-Saxon -- Influence HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century Politics and government Nationalism Manners and customs Civilization National characteristics, English SUBJECT England -- Civilization -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043277 England -- Social life and customs -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043323 Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056900 Subject England Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781787448926 1787448924

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