TY - JOUR
T1 - Becoming National? G. M. Trevelyan: The dilemmas of a liberal (inter)nationalist, 1900-1945
AU - MacLachlan, Alastair
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - On the face of it, biography, with its focus on intimate, personal identity, seems an unpromising genre for addressing the public, collective idioms of nationalism. But arguably the national is but 'one dimension in which a general theory of identity can be investigated'. And the biographical mode may offer insights into specificities, complexities and antinomies occluded in broader, impersonal studies of national identity.
AB - On the face of it, biography, with its focus on intimate, personal identity, seems an unpromising genre for addressing the public, collective idioms of nationalism. But arguably the national is but 'one dimension in which a general theory of identity can be investigated'. And the biographical mode may offer insights into specificities, complexities and antinomies occluded in broader, impersonal studies of national identity.
U2 - 10.22459/HR.XIX.01.2013.02
DO - 10.22459/HR.XIX.01.2013.02
M3 - Article
VL - XIX
SP - 23
EP - 43
JO - Humanities Research
JF - Humanities Research
IS - 1
ER -