{"product_id":"anglo-saxonism-and-the-idea-of-dustin-frazier-wood-9781783275014","title":"Anglo-Saxonism and the Idea of Englishness in Eighteenth-Century Britain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A valuable addition to both our understanding of Anglo-Saxonism, and of eighteenth-century culture. Eloquently written, the book will be the key reference for any future understanding of the way in which eighteenth-century culture received the Anglo-Saxon period.\" David Matthews, Professor of Medieval and Medievalism Studies, University of Manchester.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Long before they appeared in the pages of \u003cem\u003eIvanhoe\u003c\/em\u003e and nineteenth-century Old English scholarship, the Anglo-Saxons had become commonplace in Georgian Britain. The eighteenth century - closely associated with Neoclassicism and the Gothic and Celtic revivals - also witnessed the emergence of intertwined scholarly and popular Anglo-Saxonisms that helped to define what it meant to be English.\u003cbr\u003e This book explores scholarly Anglo-Saxon studies and imaginative Anglo-Saxonism during a century not normally associated with either. Early in the century, scholars and politicians devised a rhetoric of Anglo-Saxon inheritance in response to the Hanoverian succession, and participants in Britain's burgeoning antiquarian culture adopted simultaneously affective and scientific approaches to Anglo-Saxon remains. Patriotism, imagination and scholarship informed the writing of Enlightenment histories that presented England, its counties and its towns as Anglo-Saxon landscapes. Those same histories encouraged English readers to imagine themselves as the descendants of Anglo-Saxon ancestors - as did history paintings, book illustrations, poetry and drama that brought the Anglo-Saxon past to life. Drawing together these strands of scholarly and popular medievalism, this book identifies Anglo-Saxonism as a multifaceted, celebratory and inclusive idea of Englishness at work in eighteenth-century Britain.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e DUSTIN M. FRAZIER WOOD is a Lecturer in English at the University of Roehampton.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dustin Frazier Wood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1783275014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781783275014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Boydell Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/20\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 239\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d","brand":"Dustin Frazier Wood","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48442566377727,"sku":"9781783275014","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_481671e7-5a3a-4f12-9e52-96dd73307825.jpg?v=1777198253","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/anglo-saxonism-and-the-idea-of-dustin-frazier-wood-9781783275014","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}