TY - BOOK ID - 113584722 TI - Anglo-Saxonism and the idea of Englishness in eighteenth-century Britain PY - 2020 SN - 1787448924 1783275014 PB - Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Boydell Press, DB - UniCat KW - National characteristics, English. KW - English national characteristics KW - England KW - Civilization KW - Social life and customs KW - Affective. KW - Anglo-Saxon Past. KW - Anglo-Saxonism. KW - Book Illustrations. KW - Celtic Revival. KW - Drama. KW - Eighteenth-Century Britain. KW - Gothic Revival. KW - History Paintings. KW - Idea of Englishness. KW - Imaginative Anglo-Saxonism. KW - Neoclassicism. KW - Patriotism. KW - Poetry. KW - Scholarly Anglo-Saxon Studies. KW - Scientific Approaches. KW - Nationalism KW - Anglo-Saxons KW - History. KW - Historiography. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:113584722 AB - 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 and popular 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 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. ER -