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Christianity, Patriotism, and Nationhood - The England of G.K. Chesterton (Paperback)
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Christianity, Patriotism, and Nationhood - The England of G.K. Chesterton (Paperback)
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This book links the concepts of patriotism, Christianity, and
nationhood in the journalistic writings of G.K. Chesterton and
emphasizes their roots within the English attachments that were
central to his political and spiritual persona. It further connects
Chesterton to the vibrant debate about English national identity in
the early years of the twentieth century, which was instrumental in
shaping not only his political convictions, but also his religious
convictions. Christianity, Patriotism and Nationhood explores his
changing conception of the English people from an early, menacing
account of their revolutionary potential in the face of plutocracy
to the more complex portraits he drew of their character on
recognizing their political passivity after the First World War. As
Chesterton was above all a journalist, the study considers some of
the varied outlets in which he expressed his ideas as a distinctly
Edwardian man of letters of a strongly patriotic persuasion. His
connection with The Illustrated London News over more than three
decades proved pivotal in strengthening his patriotism and
discourse of nationhood vilified elsewhere, not least in advanced
Liberal organs such asThe Nation. Julia Stapleton shows that he was
increasingly distanced by fellow Liberals before 1918, on account
of the priority he gave nationhood over the state, and patriotism
over citizenship. But she argues that his English loyalties were
the last echo of an aspect of Victorian Liberalism that had been
progressively eroded by loss of confidence among elites in the
democratic aptitude of the English people. Christianity, Patriotism
and Nationhood emphasizes that Chesterton upheld a cultural rather
than racial conception of national homogeneity, in keeping with the
Victorian sources of his thought and the popular patriotism of
Edwardian England. It argues that his anti-semitism was ancillary,
rather than integral to his understanding of England, and that it
was matched by a similar conception of the antithesis between Islam
and the patriotic ideal. Stapleton relates his abiding concern for
national 'authenticity' to global imperialism, enhanced
international co-ordination of states and civil society after 1918,
and the increasing role of the British state in defining the
nation. This book will be valuable to intellectual and political
historians of early-twentieth-century England, as well as to
scholars and students of English national identity in the
twenty-first century. The author gratefully acknowledges the
permission of A.P. Watt Ltd on behalf of the Royal Literary Fund to
quote unpublished material in the Chesterton Papers, British
Library.
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