Englishness Identified
Manners and Character 1650-1850
Seiten
2001
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-924640-3 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-924640-3 (ISBN)
'Englishness Identified' traces the evolution of the so-called English national character through the impressions and analyses of foreign observers, and relates it to English ambitions and anxieties during a period of rapid change.
In the seventeenth century the English were often depicted as a nation of barbarians, fanatics, and king-killers. Two hundred years later they were more likely to be seen as the triumphant possessors of a unique political stability, vigorous industrial revolution, and a world-wide empire. These may have been British achievements; but the virtues which brought about this transformation tended to be perceived as specifically English. Ideas of what constituted Englishness changed from a stock notion of waywardness and unpredictability to one of discipline and dedication. The evolution of the so-called national character - today once more the subject of scrutiny and debate - is traced through the impressions and analyses of foreign observers, and related to English ambitions and anxieties during a period of intense change.
In the seventeenth century the English were often depicted as a nation of barbarians, fanatics, and king-killers. Two hundred years later they were more likely to be seen as the triumphant possessors of a unique political stability, vigorous industrial revolution, and a world-wide empire. These may have been British achievements; but the virtues which brought about this transformation tended to be perceived as specifically English. Ideas of what constituted Englishness changed from a stock notion of waywardness and unpredictability to one of discipline and dedication. The evolution of the so-called national character - today once more the subject of scrutiny and debate - is traced through the impressions and analyses of foreign observers, and related to English ambitions and anxieties during a period of intense change.
Introduction: Englishness ; 1. Energy - Industry - Locomotion - Physicality - Melancholy - Gravity - Order - Practicality ; 2. Candour - Plainness - Openness - Separateness - Domesticity - Honesty - Humbug ; 3. Decency - Barbarity - Fair Play - Propriety - Modesty ; 4. Taciturnity - Silence - Conversation - Oratory - Clubbability ; 5. Reserve - Xenophobia - Hospitality - Familiarity - Intimacy - Exclusiveness ; 6. Eccentricity - Liberty - Informality - Originality - Character - Eccentrics ; Conclusion: Manners and Character ; Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.9.2001 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 8 line drawings |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 594 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-924640-8 / 0199246408 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-924640-3 / 9780199246403 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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