Cultural identities and the aesthetics of Britishness

Dana Arnold is Professor of Architectural History, University of Southampton and Director of the Centre for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism

• List of figuresGeneral editor’s introductionNotes on contributorsIntroduction – Dana Arnold1. Robert Bowyer’s historic gallery and the feminization of the ‘nation’ – Cynthia E. Roman2. Re-visioning landscape in Wales and New South Wales c.1760–1840 – Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones3. The country house is just like a flag – Sophia Cross4. Trans-planting national cultures: The Phoenix Park, Dublin (1832–49), an urban heterotopia – Dana Arnold5. Two nations, twice: National identity in The Wild Irish Girl and Sybil – Andrew Ballantyne6. Monumental nationalism: Layard’s Assyrian discoveries and the formations of British national identity – Frederick N. Bohrer7. Union and display in nineteenth-century Ireland – Fintan Cullen8. Gentlemen connoisseurs and capitalists: Modern British imperial identity in the 1903 Delhi Durbar’s exhibition of Indian art – Julie F. Codell9. Albion’s legacy: Myth, history and the matter of Britain – Sam Smiles10. Architecture and ‘national projection’ between the wars – Mark Crinson

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