National Identity in Great Britain and British North America, 1815-1851

Linda E. Connors is Senior Librarian for Collections, Emerita, at Drew University, Madison, NJ. Her research and writing have centered on the early nineteenth-century periodical press in Great Britain. Mary Lu MacDonald is an independent scholar, resident in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who has written extensively on the print culture of early nineteenth-century Canada.

• Chapter 1 Introduction, Linda E. Connors, Mary Lu Macdonald; Chapter 2 Political and Economic Life, Linda E. Connors, Mary Lu Macdonald; Chapter 3 Faith, Religion, and the Modern World, Linda E. Connors, Mary Lu Macdonald; Chapter 4 Women and Children: Prescribed Identity, Linda E. Connors, Mary Lu Macdonald; Chapter 5 Progress of the Nation, Linda E. Connors, Mary Lu Macdonald; Chapter 6 Kingdoms and Colonies, Linda E. Connors, Mary Lu Macdonald; Chapter 7 Lands of Hope and Glory, Linda E. Connors, Mary Lu Macdonald Appendix, Linda E. Connors, Mary Lu Macdonald;

Linda E. Connors awarded Drew University’s Bela Kornitzer Book Award for the best book published by an alumnus of Drew University."This is an interesting and very useful study of British and colonial Canadian periodicals in the period 1815-1851. Though periodicals flourished during these years and often had wide readerships, they have been seldom studied in detail. In dealing with the results of their research, the co-authors wisely focus on an important theme - the subject of national identity (or identities) as the concept applies to both Britain and its North American colonies. Astutely, they make their focus an era of great formative importance: the first half of the nineteenth century beginning with the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars."- Michael Peterman, Canada, and author of Sisters in Two Worlds: A Visual Biography of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill"National Identity in Great Britain and British North America structures its comparative study of nineteenth-century identity messages around five themes, each of which has its dedicated chapter: politics and economics, religion, women and children, the idea of progress, and imperial relations. It has a comprehensive bibliography and an especially useful appendix that provides descriptions of the periodicals on which the research was based."- Victorian Periodicals Review"The study is a valuable one, not least in terms of the foregrounding of periodicals in the debate about the development of national identities..."- Tijdschrift voor Tijdschriftstudies"... an excellent contribution to the study of transatlantic British society. National identities existed, Connors and MacDonald observe, and the book’s organization allows them to explore this succinctly and clearly. ...Their extensive knowledge and lucid analysis of British print culture (a helpful appendix of periodical information is included) will be a benefit to historians and literary scholars alike."- Daved Anthony Schmidt, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA