Description
Book SynopsisThe need for a single public culture - the creation of an authentic identity - is fundamental to our understanding of nationalism and nationhood. This book examines British imperial, colonial and postcolonial national identities within their political and social contexts.
Table of ContentsList of figures
General editor’s introduction
Notes on contributors
Introduction – Dana Arnold
1. Robert Bowyer’s historic gallery and the feminization of the ‘nation’ – Cynthia E. Roman
2. Re-visioning landscape in Wales and New South Wales c.1760–1840 – Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones
3. The country house is just like a flag – Sophia Cross
4. Trans-planting national cultures: The Phoenix Park, Dublin (1832–49), an urban heterotopia – Dana Arnold
5. Two nations, twice: National identity in The Wild Irish Girl and Sybil – Andrew Ballantyne
6. Monumental nationalism: Layard’s Assyrian discoveries and the formations of British national identity – Frederick N. Bohrer
7. Union and display in nineteenth-century Ireland – Fintan Cullen
8. Gentlemen connoisseurs and capitalists: Modern British imperial identity in the 1903 Delhi Durbar’s exhibition of Indian art – Julie F. Codell
9. Albion’s legacy: Myth, history and the matter of Britain – Sam Smiles
10. Architecture and ‘national projection’ between the wars – Mark Crinson
