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British Identities since 1707
ISSN: 1664-0284
The historiography of British identities has flourished since the mid-1970s, spurred on by increasing national consciousness in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and since 1997 by devolution. Historians and other academics have become increasingly aware that identities in the British Isles have been fluid and that interactions between the different parts of the British Isles have been central to historical developments since, and indeed before, the Act of Union between England and Scotland in 1707. This series seeks to encourage exploration of identities of place in the British Isles since the early eighteenth century, including intersections between competing and complementary identities such as region and nation. The series also advances discussion of other identities such as class, gender, religion, politics, ethnicity and culture when these are geographically located and positioned. While the series is historical, it welcomes cross- and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of British identities. British Identities since 1707 examines the unity and diversity of the British Isles, developing consideration of the multiplicity of negotiations that have taken place in such a multinational and multi-ethnic group of Islands. lt will include discussions of nationalism(s), of Britishness, Englishness, Scattishness, Welshness and Irishness, as well as 'regional' identities including, for example, those associated with Cornwall, the Gäidhealtachd region in Scotland and Gaeltacht areas in Ireland. The series will encompass discussions of relations with continental Europe and the United States, with ethnic and immigrant identities and with other forms of identity associated with the British Isles as place. The editors are interested in publishing books relating to the wider British world, including current and former parts of the British Empire and the Commonwealth, and places such as Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands and the smaller islands of the British archipelago. British Identities since 1707 reinforces the consideration of history, culture and politics as richly diverse across and within the borders of the British Isles.
10 publications
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Art, Identity and Cosmopolitanism
William Rothenstein and the British Art World, c.1880–1935©2024 Monographs -
British and Catholic?
National and Religious Identity in the Work of David Jones, Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark©2013 Monographs -
‘To Be Truly British We Must Be Anti-German’
New Zealand, Enemy Aliens and the Great War Experience, 1914-1919©2012 Monographs -
Covid-19, the Second World War, and the Idea of Britishness
©2021 Edited Collection -
Fighting for Britain?
Negotiating Identities in Britain During the Second World War©2015 Edited Collection -
Identity, Violence and Resilience in 21st Century Black British and American Women's Fiction
©2024 Edited Collection -
Intimacy and Identity in the Postmodern Novel
©2006 Monographs -
Coin, Kirk, Class and Kin
Emigration, Social Change and Identity in Southern Scotland©2011 Monographs -
Identity in Place
Contemporary Indigenous Fiction by Women Writers in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand©2011 Monographs -
Constructing Identity
Continuity, Otherness and Revolt in the Poetry of Tony Harrison©2016 Monographs -
The Search for a New National Identity
The Rise of Multiculturalism in Canada and Australia, 1890s–1970s©2016 Monographs -
Reconstructing Jewish Identity in Pre- and Post-Holocaust Literature and Culture
©2013 Edited Collection -
Intertextual Transactions in Contemporary British Fiction
©2021 Monographs -
Legacies and Identity
East and West German Literary Responses to Unification©2002 Conference proceedings -
Regensburger Arbeiten zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik / Regensburg Studies in British and American Languages and Cultures
The series Regensburg Studies in British and American Languages and Cultures was established in 1971 and publishes studies on the languages, literatures and cultures of North America, the British Isles, as well as the English-speaking regions of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Caribbean. Within a transhistorical, transnational and interdisciplinary conceptual framework, the monographs in this series have stressed different areas of focus in their engagement with textual, performative, visual, material and virtual forms of representation. Recent subjects of investigation have been, for instance, language variation and varieties of English as well as the representation and enactment of regional, (trans)national and global identities. Die Buchreihe Regensburger Arbeiten zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik besteht seit 1971 und publiziert Studien zu den Sprachen, Literaturen und Kulturen Nordamerikas, der britischen Inseln sowie der englischsprachigen Regionen Afrikas, Asiens, Ozeaniens und der Karibik. Transhistorisch, transnational und interdisziplinär ausgerichtet, wählen die Monographien der Reihe je unterschiedliche Schwerpunkte in ihrer Auseinandersetzung mit textuellen, performativen, visuellen, materiellen oder virtuellen Repräsentationsformen. Untersuchungsgegenstände der letzten Jahre waren beispielsweise die sprachlichen Varietäten des Englischen sowie Darstellungen und Inszenierungen von regionalen, (trans)nationalen und globalen Identitäten.
48 publications