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Nationalism and Eighteenth‐Century British Literature
Author(s) -
Yadav Alok
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
literature compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1741-4113
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2004.00071.x
Subject(s) - nationalism , celtic languages , identity (music) , relation (database) , colonialism , period (music) , sociology , literature , history , aesthetics , gender studies , law , political science , philosophy , art , ancient history , politics , computer science , database
Discusses two competing, ‘domestically’‐oriented understandings of the dynamics of nationalism in the period 1660–1760 – the notion of an emergent, overarching and inclusive “British” identity and the notion of English “internal colonialism” in relation to the Celtic “peripheries”. The author argues, instead, for an approach that highlights England's own “provincial” standing in the wider European world of culture and the ambition to claim an “imperial” role as a way to erase this provinciality.