The Transatlantic Genealogy of American Anglo-Saxonism

This book makes an important contribution to transatlantic literary studies and an emerging body of work on national identity formation in the transatlantic world. One original feature of this work is the way in which it fleshes out the genealogy of Anglo-Saxonism crossing to the New World and the various American appropriations that follow.

This book traces the myth of Anglo-Saxonism as it crosses from Britain to the New World as both a cultural construct and ideological nation-building tool. Through extensive investigations of both early American and English cultural attitudes toward Anglo-Saxonism and similar texts, the book advances the claim that the ways in which Anglo-Saxon authors envisioned history as unfolding becomes an important ideological model for later New World conceptions of historical and national identity. From this beginning, the book follows the influence of this adopted American Anglo-Saxonism in early American literature and the socio-cultural implications that follow upon this influence.

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