{"product_id":"anglo-saxonism-and-the-idea-of-englishness-in-eighteenth-century-britain-9781783275014","title":"Anglo-Saxonism and the Idea of Englishness in Eighteenth-Century Britain","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe importance of the Anglo-Saxon past to England in the eighteenth century, politically and culturally, is here brought out.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Long before they appeared in the pages of \u003ci\u003eIvanhoe\u003c\/i\u003e 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 and popular Anglo-Saxonisms that helped to define what it meant to be English.\u003cbr\u003e 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 encouraged English 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.","brand":"Dustin M. Frazier Wood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280650318075,"sku":"9781783275014","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781783275014.jpg?v=1772486606","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/anglo-saxonism-and-the-idea-of-englishness-in-eighteenth-century-britain-9781783275014","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}