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"Then the lecturer gave an outline of her speech: The lecture will contain a brief review of the main old English gods, the causes of loss of identity and how Anglo-Saxon mythology functions in two writers, J.
They spent these centuries building an Empire and, instead of refining a national identity based on England and a sense of Englishness, they developed a sense of Anglo-Saxondom that united them with their relatives in America, Canada and Australia.
Thus, to sum up, today English people are suffering from an identity crisis caused by the loss of the British Empire, immigration, uncertainty about the European Union and the decline in traditional religion.
In a nutshell, Tolkein and Byatt use Anglo- Saxon pagan mythology to investigate ideas about Englishness and to negotiate a new English identity for our times.
If we actually look at theorists of nationhood most theorists think that the modern nation starts with the French Revolution, but there has been a very interesting piece of work done by Adrain Hastings in which he takes the modernists’ criteria for nationhood - that of a national literature, national government and legal system and a nation within particular borders - and he applies it to Anglo-Saxon England which had a national literature in their own language, while the French and the Italians did not because they still wrote in Latin.
I think I understood the mythology and language roots, but I did not understand the role of ethnoscapes in modern English identity and the differences that it causes in the E."