The Transatlantic Genealogy of American Anglo-Saxonism

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The Transatlantic Genealogy of American Anglo-Saxonism is written by Michael Modarelli and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0429785607 (ISBN 10) and 9780429785603 (ISBN 13).

This book traces the myth of Anglo-Saxonism as it crosses from Britain to the New World as both a cultural construct and ideological nation-building tool. Through extensive investigations of both early American and English cultural attitudes toward Anglo-Saxonism and similar texts, the book advances the claim that the ways in which Anglo-Saxon authors envisioned history as unfolding becomes an important ideological model for later New World conceptions of historical and national identity. From this beginning, the book follows the influence of this adopted American Anglo-Saxonism in early American literature and the socio-cultural implications that follow upon this influence.