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Septentrionalism: Whiteness And 19th Century Representations Of Scandinavia, Madison Elisabeth Boland
Septentrionalism: Whiteness And 19th Century Representations Of Scandinavia, Madison Elisabeth Boland
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During the nineteenth century, the British Empire grappled with a rapidly changing world, both in terms of the industrializing landscape at home and the multi-ethnic nature of their expanding empire. With native white British making up the privileged minority, the understanding of what a subject of the British Empire looked like began to change, contributing to racial anxieties and a rise in British nationalism. To consolidate and strengthen their sense of national identity, many white Victorians sought to define Britishness upon racially exclusive lines, prioritizing a Germanic or Anglo-Saxon ethnicity above all others, including other European ethnicities. One way the …