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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"English national identity"”.
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Heritage tourism and English national identity
… tourism on the creation and maintenance of English national identity. How this industry utilises the material and symbolic resources of this nation's cultural heritage is thus a primary focus of this work. More specifically, it is concerned with examining the components of Englishness and …
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“To Happily Lay the Foundation of Patriotism in One Single Englishman”: Women, History Texts, and the Construction of English National Identity, 1820-1870
<p>Existing historiography on nationalist pedagogy in nineteenth century England has not focused on women as major contributors to this process through their authorship of historical texts. This dissertation argues that school history texts authored by women in Romantic and Victorian England imbued …
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"""This, This Is England, but We Only Passed By."" Reclamations and Subversions of English National Identity in Works by Woolf, Waugh, Rhys and Naipaul"
… very notion of a past, perfect England and an English national identity available to all English subjects, revealing instead that a static English past never existed, and that Naipaul will never wholly participate in the English national identity that interpellates him as a subject, not a …
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Historical perceptions of Roman Catholicism and national identity, 1869-1919
… the fundamental changes which occurred in English attitudes to Roman Catholicism, and in the construction of English national identity, in the late nineteenth and early twentiethcentury. It argues that the excltisivist Protestant identity of the nation, which had hitherto been maintained by …
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Aspects of national identity in the art songs of Ralph Vaughan Williams before the Great War
This dissertation explores how the art songs of English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) composed before the Great War expressed the composer’s vision of “Englishness” or “English national identity”. These terms can be defined as the popular national consciousness of the English people. …
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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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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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Reforming nationhood : England in the literature of the Tudor imperial age, 1509-1553
… and for our wider appreciation of the origins of English national identity. It differentiates the Habsburg imperial idea from the Tudor ideology of empire inherited by Henry VIII upon his accession in 1509. It then distinguishes both these imperial ideologies from Henry's pretensions, as enshrined …
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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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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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Spectacular feasts: Herbert Beerbohm Tree and the mise-en-scene of consumption
The production style of English actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree embodied the mechanisms of conspicuous consumption. Producing spectacular Shakespeare, lavish historical melodramas, and high society dramas for English bourgeois audiences at the turn of the century, Tree filled his stage with …
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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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Masculinity and The Plebeian Honour Fight: Dispute Resolution in Georgian England
… sense of justice and fair play, a distinctive English plebeian manliness is identified and shown to be an important contributor to constructions of English national identity. The plebeian honour fight is then assessed from its initial cause or provocation through to the final stages of the …