基本説明
In this major contribution to debates about English identity, leading theorist Robert J.C. Young argues that Englishness was never really about England at all. In the nineteenth century, it was rather developed as a form of long-distance identity for the English diaspora around the world. Young shows how the effects of this continue to reverberate today, nationally and globally.
Full Description
The Idea of English Ethnicity "Robert Young has written a compelling and thorough textual history of English ethnicity and its discursive relation to the history of racial theory. Comprehensive, carefully considered, and clearly written, this book sets the standard against which any future study of Englishness will be assessed. The bar has been lifted a couple of notches higher."
David Theo Goldberg, University of California
"What is Englishness?, Robert J. C. Young asks, and in The Idea of English Ethnicityhe offers an impressively well-researched and eminently readable answer."
Werner Sollors, Harvard University
Contents
Preface. Introduction: Exodus.
1. Saxonism.
2. 'New Theory of Race: Saxon v. Celt'.
3. Moral and Philosophical Anatomy.
4. The Times vs. the Celts.
5. Matthew Arnold's Critique of 'Englishism'.
6. 'A Vaster England': The Anglo-Saxon.
7. 'England Round the World'.
8. Englishness: England and Nowhere.
Notes.
Index
