{"product_id":"dustin-frazier-m-wood-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":"\"A 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.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nLong 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.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThis 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.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nDUSTIN M. FRAZIER WOOD is a Lecturer in English at the University of Roehampton.","brand":"Boydell Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53760836960598,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9781783275014_1.jpg?v=1783341645","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/dustin-frazier-m-wood-anglo-saxonism-and-the-idea-of-englishness-in-eighteenth-century-britain-9781783275014","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}