Excavating the Borders of Literary Anglo-Saxonism in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Australia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4370750 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Louise D’arcens (0000-0001-6823-2295, University of Wollongong), Chris Jones (0000-0002-5044-1336, University of St Andrews) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 121 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 85-106 |
| Publication date | 2013-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Representations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-6018 • E-ISSN: 1533-855X |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/rep.2013.121.1.85 |
| OpenAlex | W1986767569 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 5 |
Comparing nineteenth-century British and Australian Anglo-Saxonist literature enables a "decentered" exploration of Anglo-Saxonism's intersections with national, imperial, and colonial discourses, challenging assumptions that this discourse was an uncritical vehicle of English nationalism and British manifest destiny. Far from reflecting a stable imperial center, evocations of "ancient Englishness" in British literature were polyvalent and self-contesting, while in Australian literature they offered a response to colonization and emerging knowledge about the vast age of Indigenous Australian cultures
Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Destiny (ISS module · Ethnology · Genealogy · Imperial unit system · Indigenous · Literature · Manifest destiny · Nationalism · Political science · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Australian History and Society · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.44 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2024 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |