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Trans-planting national cultures: The Phoenix Park, Dublin (1832-49), an urban heterotopia

Trans-planting national cultures: The Phoenix Park, Dublin (1832-49), an urban heterotopia
Trans-planting national cultures: The Phoenix Park, Dublin (1832-49), an urban heterotopia
The need for a single public culture - or the creation of an authentic identity - is fundamental to our understanding of nationalism and nationhood. But how are these cultural identities expressed? This book examines British imperial, colonial and postcolonial national identities within their political and social contexts. By considering the export, adoption and creation of such cultural identities, these essays show how nationhood and nationalism are self-consciously defined tools designed to focus and inspire loyalty. As such, they are integral to the larger process of constructing a public culture.
The contributors to this fascinating and timely collection present these ideas with particular reference to English cultural identity and its interaction with the `Empire'. They examine the national, imperial and colonial aesthetic - how architecture, landscape, painting, sculpture and literature were used, appropriated and re-appropriated in the furtherance of social and political agendas, and how this impacted on the making of `Britishness' in all its complexities. It is demonstrated that not only did the dominant aesthetic culture reinforce the dominant political and social ideology, it also re-presented and re-constructed the notion of British national identity.
0719067693
67-86
Manchester University Press
Arnold, Dana
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Arnold, Dana
Arnold, Dana
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Arnold, Dana

Arnold, Dana (2004) Trans-planting national cultures: The Phoenix Park, Dublin (1832-49), an urban heterotopia. In, Arnold, Dana (ed.) Cultural identities and the aesthetics of Britishness. (Studies in Imperialism Series) Manchester, UK; New York, USA. Manchester University Press, pp. 67-86.

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The need for a single public culture - or the creation of an authentic identity - is fundamental to our understanding of nationalism and nationhood. But how are these cultural identities expressed? This book examines British imperial, colonial and postcolonial national identities within their political and social contexts. By considering the export, adoption and creation of such cultural identities, these essays show how nationhood and nationalism are self-consciously defined tools designed to focus and inspire loyalty. As such, they are integral to the larger process of constructing a public culture.
The contributors to this fascinating and timely collection present these ideas with particular reference to English cultural identity and its interaction with the `Empire'. They examine the national, imperial and colonial aesthetic - how architecture, landscape, painting, sculpture and literature were used, appropriated and re-appropriated in the furtherance of social and political agendas, and how this impacted on the making of `Britishness' in all its complexities. It is demonstrated that not only did the dominant aesthetic culture reinforce the dominant political and social ideology, it also re-presented and re-constructed the notion of British national identity.

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Published date: 2004

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Local EPrints ID: 12473
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/12473
ISBN: 0719067693
PURE UUID: d363d85b-e54d-4aef-a061-cede8cd661fd

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Date deposited: 18 Dec 2004
Last modified: 27 Mar 2024 18:28

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Author: Dana Arnold
Editor: Dana Arnold

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