Book Description
De geschiedenis van opvattingen over het nationale karakter van de Engelsen in de afgelopen twee eeuwen.
Author : Peter Mandler
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 37,44 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300120523
De geschiedenis van opvattingen over het nationale karakter van de Engelsen in de afgelopen twee eeuwen.
Author : Peter Mandler
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 25,27 MB
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780300246520
What kind of people are 'the English' - what are the characteristic traits and behaviour that distinguish them from other people? This highly original and wide-ranging book traces the surprisingly varied history of ideas amongst the English about their own 'national character' over the past two centuries. Two hundred years ago, the very idea of a 'national character' was novel and not very respectable. In our own time, when we like to think of ourselves as unique individuals, it's hard again to think of a 'national character' that binds us into a national unit. But in between, as Britain became a democracy, 'national character' became part of the national common sense, in depictions of 'John Bull' and his twentieth-century successor, the 'Little Man', and in a set of stereotypes about English traits, follies and foibles. Far from being shy of talking about themselves, the English have produced over the past two hundred years a vast outpouring of material on what it means to be English - material on which this book draws: lectures, sermons, political speeches, journalism, popular and scholarly books, poems and novels and films, satires and cartoons and caricatures, as well as the most up-to-the minute social science and public opinion research. In this comprehensive, lucidly argued account of the history of thinking about the English national character, one of the leading historians of modern Britain challenges long-held assumptions and familiar stereotypes and offers an entirely new perspective on what it means to think of oneself as being English.
Author : Mandell Creighton
Publisher :
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 43,85 MB
Release : 1896
Category : English
ISBN :
Author : Elwyn Jenkins
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 19,72 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0415976766
"This is the first full-length study of South African English youth literature to cover the entire period of its publication, from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. What gives this book particular strength is its coverage of literature up to the 1960s, which has until now recieved almost no scholarly attention. Not only is this earlier literature a rewarding subject for study in itself, but it also throws light on subsequent literary developments. Jenkins also makes comparisons with American, Canadian and Australian children's literature. This book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand children's literature in the context of adult South African literature and South African cultural history."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Edmund Dale
Publisher :
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 23,76 MB
Release : 1907
Category : England
ISBN :
Author : Sir Ernest Barker
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 12,44 MB
Release : 1948
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Paul Langford
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,64 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0199246408
In the seventeenth century the English were often depicted as a nation of barbarians, fanatics, and king-killers. Two hundred years later they were more likely to be seen as the triumphant possessors of a unique political stability, vigorous industrial revolution, and a world-wide empire.These may have been British achievements; but the virtues which brought about this transformation tended to be perceived as specifically English. Ideas of what constituted Englishness changed from a stock notion of waywardness and unpredictability to one of discipline and dedication. The evolutionof the so-called national character - today once more the subject of scrutiny and debate - is traced through the impressions and analyses of foreign observers, and related to English ambitions and anxieties during a period of intense change.
Author : Charles Henry Pearson
Publisher :
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,74 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Moral conditions
ISBN :
Author : R. Lynn
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 26,78 MB
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1483186776
Personality and National Character analyses the underlying factors that contribute to the national character of a people from the point of view of modern psychology. The book focuses mainly in the manifestations of the level of anxiety. Chapters discuss such topics as anxiety and psychosis; suicide and alcoholism; the relation between anxiety and sex; anxiety and economic growth; climatic effects on anxiety; and anxiety and race. Psychiatrists, sociologists, economists, psychologists, and educators will find the book invaluable.
Author : Mandell Creighton
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,99 MB
Release : 1892
Category : English character
ISBN :