Title Celts, Romans, Britons : classical and Celtic influence in the construction of British identities / edited by Francesca Kaminski-Jones and Rhys Kaminski-Jones

Edition First edition Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 266 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps Series Classical Presences Classical presences. Contents Cover -- Celts, Romans, Britons: Classical and Celtic Influence in the Construction of British Identities -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- 1: Celts, Romans, Britons: Introduction -- 'Celtic' and 'Classical': Definition, Opposition, and Interaction -- 2: British Ethnogenesis: A Late Antique Story -- 3: Romans, Britons, and the Construction of 'Anglo-Saxon' Identity -- 4: Origins and Introductions: Troy and Rome in Medieval British and Irish Writing -- British history and the struggle for 'Britain' -- Troy and Rome National Origins and Trojan Ambiguities in Welsh and Irish Troy Narratives -- The Trojan Preface in English Romance: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Chaucer's House of Fame -- Conclusion -- 5: The Politics of British Antiquity and the Descent from Troy in the Early Stuart Era -- The Jacobean Campaign for the (Re)unification of Britain -- Troynovant Must Not be Burnt -- 6: Greek Gaels, British Gaels: Classical Allusion in Early-Modern Scottish Gaelic Poetry -- The Poets and the Poetry -- Classical Reception -- Modern Scholarship The Allusions: Warriors, Philosophers, and the War of the Sexes -- The Gaels and the Kingdom of Britain -- Afterword: Eighteenth-Century Developments -- 7: Celts and Romans on Tour: Visions of Early Britain in Eighteenth-Century Travel Literature -- Conclusion -- 8: British Imperialist and/or Avatar of Welshness?: Caractacus Performances in the Long Nineteenth Century -- 9: Moderns of the Past, Moderns of the Future: George Sigerson's Celtic-Romans in Ireland, 1897-1922 -- Introduction -- Cicero, Divitiacus, and Sedulius -- Identity -- Translation -- Conclusion 10: Alternative Histories: Crypto-Celts and Crypto-Romans in the Legendarium of J.R.R. Tolkien -- Introduction -- 'Crypto-Celts' in the First Age: Doriath and Gondolin -- First and Second Ages: The Three Houses of the Edain -- The Second Age: Númenor -- The Third Age: The Dunlendings, the Bree-folk, and the Bucklanders -- Crypto-Romans -- Crypto-Roman Catholics -- Other Works -- Conclusions -- 11: Hadrian's Wall: An Allegory for British Disunity -- Introduction -- Hadrian's Wall and the Roman Empire -- The 'English Wall': 'Home Rule' and Brexit, 1997-2017 -- Brendan Carlin The Flag of St George and the Hanoverian Military Way -- Hugo Gye and the Wall's Re-building -- 'Salmond's Wall' and April Fool's Day 2014 -- Alex Hughes' cartoon -- Brexit and the Breaking Up of Britain -- Hadrian's Wall and the Frontiers of the Roman Empire -- Debatable Lands and the Celtic-Classical Duality -- APPENDIX: Caradog (1904): Scene Summary and Select Quotations -- Scene I -- Scene II -- Scene III -- Scene IV -- Scene V -- Scene VI -- Scene VII -- Bibliography -- Websites -- Index Summary This interdisciplinary volume of essays examines the real and imagined role of Classical and Celtic influence in the history of British identity formation, from late antiquity to the present day. In so doing, it makes the case for increased collaboration between the fields of Classical reception and Celtic studies, and opens up new avenues of investigation into the categories Celtic and Classical, which are presented as fundamentally interlinked and frequently interdependent. In a series of chronologically arranged chapters, beginning with the post-Roman Britons and ending with the 2016 Brexit referendum, it draws attention to the constructed and historically contingent nature of the Classical and the Celtic, and explores how notions related to both categories have been continuously combined and contrasted with one another in relation to British identities. Britishness is revealed as a site of significant Celtic-Classical cross-pollination, and a context in which received ideas about Celts, Romans, and Britons can be fruitfully reconsidered, subverted, and reformulated. Responding to important scholarly questions that are best addressed by this interdisciplinary approach, and extending the existing literature on Classical reception and national0identity by treating the Celtic as an equally relevant tradition, the volume creates a new and exciting dialogue between subjects that all too often are treated in isolation, and sets the foundations for future cross-disciplinary conversations Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed November 25, 2020) Subject English literature -- History and criticism. English literature -- Celtic influences. National characteristics, British. Civilization -- Celtic influences Civilization -- Roman influences English literature English literature -- Celtic influences National characteristics, British SUBJECT Great Britain -- Civilization -- Roman influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056630 Great Britain -- Civilization -- Celtic influences Subject Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism. Informational works. Critiques littéraires. Documents d'information. Form Electronic book Author Kaminski-Jones, Francesca, editor. Kaminski-Jones, Rhys, editor. ISBN 9780192608154 0192608150 9780191895609 0191895601

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