Excavating the borders of literary Anglo-Saxonism in nineteenth-century Britain and Australia
Abstract
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 assumption 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.
Citation
D'Arcens , L & Jones , C 2013 , ' Excavating the borders of literary Anglo-Saxonism in nineteenth-century Britain and Australia ' , Representations , vol. 121 , no. 1 , 121 , pp. 85-106 . https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2013.121.1.85
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Representations
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Peer reviewed
ISSN
0734-6018Type
Journal article
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