Trans-planting national cultures: The Phoenix Park, Dublin (1832-49), an urban heterotopia
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. Manchester, UK; New York, USA, Manchester University Press; Palgrave, 67-86. (Studies in Imperialism Series).
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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.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| ISBNs: | 0719067693 (paperback) 0719067685 (hardback) |
| Subjects: | C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CC Archaeology |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Humanities > Archaeology University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Humanities |
| Item ID: | 12473 |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Dec 2004 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2012 11:44 |
| Contributors: | Arnold, Dana (Author) Arnold, Dana (Editor) |
| Date: | 2004 |
| Status: | Published |
| Publisher: | Manchester University Press; Palgrave |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/12473 |
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