Englishness Identified: Manners and Character 1650-1850OUP Oxford, 20 d’abr. 2000 - 402 pàgines 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 evolution of 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. |
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Pàgina 6
... French philosopher Helvetius selected the English as a spectacular example of progress , by what had once been ' a nation of slaves , inhuman and superstitious , without arts and without industry'.28 This was written at a time when ...
... French philosopher Helvetius selected the English as a spectacular example of progress , by what had once been ' a nation of slaves , inhuman and superstitious , without arts and without industry'.28 This was written at a time when ...
Pàgina 11
... French- men to visit Britain for anything but business , had waged a campaign single - handedly to bring to the attention of a French public the best of English literature . He believed that the English had been misunderstood by his ...
... French- men to visit Britain for anything but business , had waged a campaign single - handedly to bring to the attention of a French public the best of English literature . He believed that the English had been misunderstood by his ...
Pàgina 19
... French commentators agreed . France had suffered only one conquest since Roman times , and that , by the Franks , had left the essential char- acter of Gaul in place . England , on the contrary , had been conquered every time it was ...
... French commentators agreed . France had suffered only one conquest since Roman times , and that , by the Franks , had left the essential char- acter of Gaul in place . England , on the contrary , had been conquered every time it was ...
Pàgina 21
... French monarchy's revo- cation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 had a visible impact on numerous aspects of British society . French Anglophiles took pleasure in this for- tuitous Gallic contribution to a maturing Anglo - Saxon ...
... French monarchy's revo- cation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 had a visible impact on numerous aspects of British society . French Anglophiles took pleasure in this for- tuitous Gallic contribution to a maturing Anglo - Saxon ...
Pàgina 22
... French and the English as coins , the former worn by inces- sant sociability into indistinguishable blanks , the latter so little accus- tomed to contact with others , that they retained their individual markings in high relief.113 ...
... French and the English as coins , the former worn by inces- sant sociability into indistinguishable blanks , the latter so little accus- tomed to contact with others , that they retained their individual markings in high relief.113 ...
Continguts
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CANDOUR | 85 |
DECENCY | 137 |
TACITURNITY | 175 |
RESERVE | 219 |
ECCENTRICITY | 267 |
MANNERS AND CHARACTER | 313 |
Notes | 321 |
Index | 377 |
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Pàgina 198 - Bull has noth ing to say. His forefathers have been out of spirits for six or seven hundred years, and. seeing nothing but fog and vapour, he is out of spirits too; and when there is no selling or buying, or no business to settle, he prefers being alone and looking at the fire.
Pàgina 64 - But no one who has seen much of actual ploughmen thinks them jocund; no one who is well acquainted with the English peasantry can pronounce them merry. The slow gaze, in which no sense of beauty beams, no humor twinkles, — the slow utterance and the heavy slouching walk...
Pàgina 20 - A gluttonous race of Jutes and Angles, capable of no grand combinations ; lumbering about in potbellied equanimity ; not dreaming of heroic toil and silence and endurance, such as leads to the high places of this Universe, and the golden mountain-tops where dwell the Spirits of the Dawn.
Pàgina 19 - I know anything of. 1 . The people are purer English blood; less mixed with Scotch, Irish, Dutch, French, Danish, Swedish, etc., than any other; and descended from Englishmen, too, who left Europe in purer times than the present, and less tainted with corruption than those they left behind them.
Pàgina 30 - ... has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention, in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.
Pàgina 79 - Nature's favorite resource for preserving steadiness of conduct and consistency of opinion. It enforces concentration; people who learn slowly learn only what they must. The best security for...
Pàgina 201 - Walter Savage Landor. Her house is furnished with a luxury and splendour not to be surpassed ; her dinners are frequent and good ; and D'Orsay does the honours with a frankness and cordiality which are very successful ; but all this does not make society, in the real meaning of the term. There is a vast deal of coming and going, and eating and drinking, and a corresponding amount of noise, but little or no conversation, discussion, easy quiet interchange of ideas and opinions, no regular social foundation...
Referències a aquest llibre
The English National Character: The History of an Idea from Edmund Burke to ... Peter Mandler Previsualització limitada - 2006 |
Janespotting and Beyond: British Heritage Retrovisions Since the Mid-1990s Eckart Voigts-Virchow Previsualització limitada - 2004 |