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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.

National characteristics, English. --- English national characteristics --- England --- Civilization --- Social life and customs --- Affective. --- Anglo-Saxon Past. --- Anglo-Saxonism. --- Book Illustrations. --- Celtic Revival. --- Drama. --- Eighteenth-Century Britain. --- Gothic Revival. --- History Paintings. --- Idea of Englishness. --- Imaginative Anglo-Saxonism. --- Neoclassicism. --- Patriotism. --- Poetry. --- Scholarly Anglo-Saxon Studies. --- Scientific Approaches. --- Nationalism --- Anglo-Saxons --- History. --- Historiography.

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