This book traces the myth of Anglo-Saxonism as it crosses from Britain to the New World as both a cultural construct and ideological nation-building tool. Through extensive investigations of both early American and English cultural attitudes toward Anglo-Saxonism and similar texts, the book advances the claim that the ways in which Anglo-Saxon authors envisioned history as unfolding becomes an important ideological model for later New World conceptions of historical and national identity. From this beginning, the book follows the influence of this adopted American Anglo-Saxonism in early American literature and the socio-cultural implications that follow upon this influence.
| ISBN: | 9780367585563 |
| Publication date: | 30th June 2020 |
| Author: | Michael Modarelli |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 214 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in Cultural History |
| Genres: |
Social and cultural history Historiography History and Archaeology |
This book traces the myth of Anglo-Saxonism as it crosses from Britain to the New World as both a cultural construct and ideological nation-building tool. Through extensive investigations of both early American and English cultural attitudes toward Anglo-Saxonism and similar texts, the book advances the claim that the ways in which Anglo-Saxon authors envisioned history as unfolding becomes an important ideological model for later New World conceptions of historical and national identity. From this beginning, the book follows the influence of this adopted American Anglo-Saxonism in early American literature and the socio-cultural implications that follow upon this influence.
The Transatlantic Genealogy of American Anglo-Saxonism features in the following genres: Social and cultural history, Historiography, History and Archaeology
The Transatlantic Genealogy of American Anglo-Saxonism is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Transatlantic Genealogy of American Anglo-Saxonism was written by Michael Modarelli and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
The Transatlantic Genealogy of American Anglo-Saxonism has 214 pages
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