National identity in Great Britain and British North America, 1815-1851 : the role of nineteenth-century periodicals
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National identity in Great Britain and British North America, 1815-1851 : the role of nineteenth-century periodicals
Ashgate, c2011
- : hardcover
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-222) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Examining the complex and rapidly expanding world of print culture and reading in the nineteenth century, Linda E. Connors and Mary Lu MacDonald show how periodicals in the United Kingdom and British North America shaped and promoted ideals about national identity. In the wake of the Napoleonic wars, periodicals instilled in readers an awareness of cultures, places and ways of living outside their own experience, while also proffering messages about what it meant to be British. The authors cast a wide net, showing the importance of periodicals for understanding political and economic life, faith and religion, the world of women and children, the idea of progress as a transcendent ideology, and the relationships between the parts (for example, Scotland or Nova Scotia) and the whole (Great Britain). Analyzing the British identity of expatriate nineteenth-century Britons in North America alongside their counterparts in Great Britain enables insights into whether residents were encouraged to identify themselves by country of residence, by country of birth, or by their newly acquired understanding of a broader whole. Enhanced by a succinct and informative catalogue of data, including editorship and price, about the periodicals analyzed, this study provides a striking history of the era and brings clarity to the perception of British transcendence and progress that emerged with such force and appeal after 1815.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 Introduction, Linda E. Connors, Mary Lu Macdonald
- Chapter 2 Political and Economic Life, Linda E. Connors, Mary Lu Macdonald
- Chapter 3 Faith, Religion, and the Modern World, Linda E. Connors, Mary Lu Macdonald
- Chapter 4 Women and Children: Prescribed Identity, Linda E. Connors, Mary Lu Macdonald
- Chapter 5 Progress of the Nation, Linda E. Connors, Mary Lu Macdonald
- Chapter 6 Kingdoms and Colonies, Linda E. Connors, Mary Lu Macdonald
- Chapter 7 Lands of Hope and Glory, Linda E. Connors, Mary Lu Macdonald Appendix, Linda E. Connors, Mary Lu Macdonald
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