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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"English identity"”.
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Semitic discourse: English identity and the nineteenth -century British novel
… discourse to imagine and construct Christian English people as racially pure. One result of the growing presence of assimilated Jewish people living in England in the nineteenth century was the fear that they might pass undetected and pollute the "purity" of English blood. In response to this …
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Inventing the Sacred Nation: Saint Edmund of East Anglia and English Identity in Medieval Text and Image
… martyr, contribute to a medieval discourse of English national identity. By utilizing St. Edmund as the project's primary lens, I go beyond solely focusing on early nationalism to determine how constructions of this saint are linked to constructions of monastic, lay, and royal identities. St. …
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The Essence of English Identity: Gender's Role in the Stability of the Nation in English Literature, from the Anglo-Saxons to the Victorians
… that affected societal perceptions of English national identity and stability for over a thousand years. Historian Geoffrey Hindley writes, "the historical reality of an English identity grew out of the traditions of loyalty and lordship from the epic heritage of a pagan past embodied …
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“Þe Inglis in seruage”: Textual Englishness, 1175 – 1330
For some time, scholars who study English identity formation in the literature produced between the Norman Conquest and the Hundred Years War have addressed the manifold ways English writers imagined and reconstructed the Anglo-Saxon past as a golden era free of the taint of foreign domination. I …
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Language, Land, and Law: Laurence Nowell's Anglo -Saxon Studies in Sixteenth-Century England
… the Elizabethan antiquary Laurence Nowell's Old English lexical glosses, English place-name index, and Old English-Latin legal glossary in his copy of Richard Howlet's Abcedarium Anglico-Latinum and relates each of his projects to national identity formation in Tudor England. Nowell wrote …
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Making Up Race in Early Modern England
… use of cosmetics worked to consolidate a white English identity and inspire new forms of misogyny after her death, like those encoded in Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy (1606). Chapter three explores the theme of racial impersonation in The Masque of Blackness, while Chapter four focuses most …
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The English in America: National Identity and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1620--1688
… challenges the traditional division between English and American literatures by illuminating the ways the transatlantic book trade accelerated the production of fantasies of Englishness in the early modern era. Literary scholarship has tended to divide English and American literature too …
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The Medieval Borderland: Geophysical Analysis of a Later Medieval Deserted Settlement and Cultural Landscape from Western Ireland
… inhabited by its residents as an overt claim to English identity and embodied the complicated and nuanced intersection of power and ethnicity within the Irish colonial period.</p>
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1960s travel fiction and Englishness during the postimperial turn
… writing has for centuries helped to construct English identity in relation to its others. The traditional function of travel narratives to define Englishness, however, faced a fundamental crisis of meaning when the British Empire starting falling apart after WWII. This crisis emerged as an …
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Country Clergymen: National and Religious Mediations on the Victorian Clerical Novel
… parish life which had long been a paradigm of English identity. From The Vicar of Wakefield to late nineteenth-century novels of clerical doubt, these novels evince an ongoing concern with national representation. Published at mid-century, Margaret Oliphant's The Perpetual Curate offers insight …
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Creating a gens Anglorum: Social and Ethnic Identity in Anglo-Saxon England through the Lens of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica
… of the role of Bede in the creation of an English national identity by considering the use, re-use and transmission of the Historia Ecclesiastica across the Anglo-Saxon period. Bede's exemplary and providential history had created an image of an idealised past to inspire change in the …
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Baptists and Britons: Particular Baptist Ministers in England and British Identity in the 1790s
… provided the unifying foundation of national identity. Colley portrays a Protestant British identity defined in opposition to Catholic France. Clark favors an English identity, based upon an Anglican intellectual hegemony, against which only the heterodox could effectively offer criticism. …
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Phonetic variation, sound change, and identity in Scottish Gaelic
… and uncovers the role that Gaelic plays in identity formation for each of the participants. In order to gain an insight into the role of Gaelic in different speakers’ lives, I report on ethnographic studies carried out in Lewis and in Glasgow. The phonetic analysis then explores patterns of …
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“Wars are won by men not weapons”: the invention of a militarised British settler identity in the Eastern Cape c. 1910–1965
… with the invention of South African Anglo identity, and aims to provide a new perspective on how this identity was constructed in the Eastern Cape from c.1910 to 1965. In particular, it considers the ways in which the museum developed to construct South African Anglo identity in the Eastern …
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The black, British Atlantic: Blackness in Victorian literature
… agency that not only constitutes a part of English culture, but is performed by people regardless of racial affiliation. This notion of blackness as performative signifier goes beyond the slavery metaphor in Victorian literature to frame an interpretive paradigm that allows us to read …
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Courtly mirrors: the politics of Chapman's drama
… the time. My work examines the configuration of English national identity in his plays, positing an idea of Englishness which is separate from, and often critical of, the monarchy, and which relies on a structural parallel with the French court in order to imagine English identity. It then …
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‘They all looked such good meat’: Cannibal Metaphors in Early Twentieth Century English Fiction
… cannibal metaphors in early twentieth-century English fiction, exploring how one of the most powerfully enduring colonial tropes about the savage Other seeped into the literary imagination of English-language authors and informed much of their imagery. I read cannibalism as a complicated trope: …
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Identitas sosial pengguna jilbab dalam kelompok mahasiswi inkafa, kelompok rohis Universitas Brawijaya dan komunitas hijaber Malang
… INKAFA yang masuk dalam kategori High Social Identity dengan nilai rerata kelompok tertinggi yaitu 133, serta kelompok ROHIS Universitas Brawijaya dengan nilai 115 dan komunitas Hijaber Malang dengan nilai rerata kelompok 119 dimana keduanya tergolong kategori Low Social Identity. Hal ini …
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“We Have to Record the Downfall of Tyranny”: The London Times Perspective on Napoleon Bonaparte’s Invasion of Russia
… takeover of the continent. This work details the English struggle in order to provide a broader analysis through a newspaper of how nations indirectly involved in the Napoleonic wars understood the conflict.</p>
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