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The Idea of the National in Victorian Political Thought

University of Manchester, UK, stuart.jones{at}manchester.ac.uk

This article contests the argument that British political thought in the 19th century was exceptional in European perspective in lacking a strong concept of nationhood and nationality. On the one hand it argues, with reference to Mazzini, Michelet and Renan, that continental European theories of nationality were by no means as dependent on a strong concept of race as a focus on Germany might imply. On the other hand, it identifies the Liberal Anglican tradition (Thomas and Matthew Arnold, F.D. Maurice, Arnold Toynbee) as a current of thought which generated an important but certainly non-racial concept of nationhood, as part of a general rehabilitation of community in the face of what these thinkers took to be utilitarian neglect.

Key Words: Matthew Arnold • F.D. Maurice • nation • nationalism • race • Toynbee • Victorian

European Journal of Political Theory, Vol. 5, No. 1, 12-21 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1474885106059060


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