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National characteristics, British. --- Great Britain --- Civilization. --- Intellectual life. --- Social life and customs.
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In his important contribution to the growing field of sports literature, Anthony Bateman traces the relationship between literary representations of cricket and Anglo-British national identity from 1850 to the mid 1980's, with an in-depth look at cricket during the interwar period and the sport's transmission throughout the British empire. Examining newspaper accounts, instructional books, fiction, and poetry, Bateman elaborates how the long tradition of literary discourse produced cricket's cultural status and meaning.
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During the tumultuous closing decades of the nineteenth century, as the prospect of democracy loomed and as intensified global economic and strategic competition reshaped the political imagination, British thinkers grappled with the question of how best to organize the empire. Many found an answer to the anxieties of the age in the idea of Greater Britain, a union of the United Kingdom and its settler colonies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and southern Africa. In The Idea of Greater Britain, Duncan Bell analyzes this fertile yet neglected debate, examining how a wide range of thinkers conceived of this vast "Anglo-Saxon" political community. Their proposals ranged from the fantastically ambitious--creating a globe-spanning nation-state--to the practical and mundane--reinforcing existing ties between the colonies and Britain. But all of these ideas were motivated by the disquiet generated by democracy, by challenges to British global supremacy, and by new possibilities for global cooperation and communication that anticipated today's globalization debates. Exploring attitudes toward the state, race, space, nationality, and empire, as well as highlighting the vital theoretical functions played by visions of Greece, Rome, and the United States, Bell illuminates important aspects of late-Victorian political thought and intellectual life.
Imperialism --- National characteristics, British. --- Impérialisme --- Caractéristiques nationales britanniques --- History --- Histoire --- Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- Colonies --- Civilization --- Civilisation --- British national characteristics
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This is the first systematic analysis of the relationship between representations of 'Germanness' in modernist British literature, the construction of English identity and the negotiation of modernity. Major figures such as Conrad, Woolf and Ford are examined alongside popular or less-familiar writers such as Saki and Stevie Smith. Rau's book will be invaluable to scholars and will serve undergraduates working in modernism, literary history, and European cultural relations.
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English literature --- Heroic virtue in literature. --- Literature and society --- National characteristics, British, in literature. --- Politics and literature --- History and criticism. --- History --- Great Britain --- Intellectual life --- Heroic virtue in literature --- National characteristics, British, in literature --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- History and criticism
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Making extensive use of archival materials, Catherine Jolivette explores the intersection of landscape art with a variety of discourses including the role of women in contemporary society, the status of immigrant artists in Britain, developments in science and technology, and the promotion of British art and culture abroad.
Landscapes in art. --- National characteristics, British, in art. --- Arts, British --- Arts and society --- Arts and society. --- Arts, British. --- Kunst. --- Landschaft (Motiv). --- Nationalbewusstsein. --- Landskap i konsten. --- Nationalkaraktär --- Brittisk konst --- Konst och samhälle --- History --- Historia --- Festival of Britain --- Festival of Britain. --- Geschichte 1950-1960. --- 1900-1999. --- Great Britain. --- Gro�britannien. --- Landscapes in art --- National characteristics, British, in art --- Arts --- Arts and sociology --- Society and the arts --- Sociology and the arts --- Landscape in art --- Social aspects
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Using Lady Morgan's The Wild Irish Girl as his point of departure, Thomas J. Tracy argues that nineteenth-century debates over what constitutes British national identity often revolved around representations of Irishness, especially Irish womanhood. He maps the genealogy of this development in fiction, political discourse, and the popular press, from Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent through Trollope's Irish novels, focusing on the pivotal period from 1806 through the 1870's.
English fiction --- National characteristics, Irish, in literature. --- Irish authors --- History and criticism. --- Irish question --- National characteristics, British, in literature --- National characteristics, Irish, in literature --- Nationalism in literature --- Women in literature --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Home rule --- English literature --- Irish authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- Ireland --- In literature. --- National characteristics, British, in literature. --- Nationalism in literature. --- Women in literature. --- Irish question.
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This book gives an ambitious revisionist account of the nineteenth-century British novel and its role in the complex historical process that ultimately gave rise to modern anthropology's concept of culture and its accredited researcher, the Participant Observer. Buzard reads the great nineteenth-century novels of Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and others as "metropolitan autoethnographies" that began to exercise and test the ethnographic imagination decades in advance of formal modern ethnography--and that did so while focusing on Western European rather than on distant Oriental subjects. Disorienting Fiction shows how English Victorian novels appropriated and anglicized an autoethnographic mode of fiction developed early in the nineteenth century by the Irish authors of the National Tale and, most influentially, by Walter Scott. Buzard demonstrates that whereas the fiction of these non-English British subjects devoted itself to describing and defending (but also inventing) the cultural autonomy of peripheral regions, the English novels that followed them worked to imagine limited and mappable versions of English or British culture in reaction against the potential evacuation of cultural distinctiveness threatened by Britain's own commercial and imperial expansion. These latter novels attempted to forestall the self-incurred liabilities of a nation whose unprecedented reach and power tempted it to universalize and export its own customs, to treat them as simply equivalent to a globally applicable civilization. For many Victorian novelists, a nation facing the prospect of being able to go and to exercise its influence just about anywhere in the world also faced the danger of turning itself into a cultural nowhere. The complex autoethnographic work of nineteenth-century British novels was thus a labor to disorient or de-globalize British national imaginings, and novelists mobilized and freighted with new significance some basic elements of prose narrative in their efforts to write British culture into being. Sure to provoke debate, this book offers a commanding reassessment of a major moment in the history of British literature.
Alienation (Social psychology) in literature --- Aliénation (Psychologie sociale) dans la littérature --- Aliënatie (Sociale psychologie) in de literatuur --- Aliënatie [Sociale ] in de literatuur --- British national characteristics in literature --- Brits volkskarakter in de literatuur --- Britse volksaard in de literatuur --- Caractéristiques nationales britanniques dans la littérature --- Culture dans la littérature --- Culture in literature --- Cultuur in de literatuur --- Difference (Psychology) in literature --- Differentie (Psychologie) in de literatuur --- Différence (Psychologie) dans la littérature --- Ik in de literatuur --- Isolation sociale dans la littérature --- Marginalen in de literatuur --- Marginaux dans la littérature --- Moi dans la littérature --- National characteristics [British ] in literature --- Outsiders in literature --- Self in literature --- Sociaal isolement in de literatuur --- Social isolation in literature --- Sociale aliënatie in de literatuur --- Sociale vervreemding in de literatuur --- Vervreemding [Sociale ] in de literatuur --- Volksaard [Britse ] in de literatuur --- Volkskarakter [Brits ] in de literatuur --- 820 "18" --- Engelse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 --- 820 "18" Engelse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 --- Soi dans la littérature --- Zelf in de literatuur --- English fiction --- National characteristics, British, in literature. --- Alienation (Social psychology) in literature. --- Difference (Psychology) in literature. --- Social isolation in literature. --- Outsiders in literature. --- Culture in literature. --- Self in literature. --- History and criticism. --- National characteristics, British, in literature --- History and criticism --- 19th century --- Love in literature
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Political systems --- Sociology of culture --- Great Britain --- National characteristics, British --- Group identity --- Nationalism --- Multiculturalism --- British --- Caractéristiques nationales britanniques --- Identité collective --- Nationalisme --- Multiculturalisme --- Britanniques --- History. --- Ethnic identity. --- Histoire --- Identité ethnique --- Grande-Bretagne --- Civilization. --- Civilisation --- Decentralization in government --- BPB0910 --- #SBIB:316.7C122 --- 316.37 --- Cultuursociologie: overtuigingen, waarden en houdingen --- Identiteit. Individu en maatschappij. Persoonlijkheid --- 316.37 Identiteit. Individu en maatschappij. Persoonlijkheid --- History --- Caractéristiques nationales britanniques --- Identité collective --- Identité ethnique --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- British national characteristics --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- British people --- Britishers --- Britons (British) --- Brits --- Ethnology --- Ethnic identity --- Nation --- Grande Bretagne --- Politique sociale --- 20e siècle
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