Description |
1 online resource (viii, 228 pages) |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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Contents |
"Native tongue": Ossian, national origins, and the problem of translation -- Roby Roy and the King's visit: modernity and the nation-as-tribe -- Britain's "Imperial man": Walter Scott, David Stewart, and Highland masculinity -- "Petticoated devils": Highland soldiers, martial races, and the Indian mutiny -- "Not absolutely a native nor entirely a strange": Anne Grant, Queen Victoria, and the Highland travelogue |
Summary |
"Scotland, Britain, Empire takes on a cliche that permeates writing from and about the literature of the Scottish Highlands. Popular and influential in its time, this literature fell into disrepute for circulating a distorted and deforming myth that aided in Scotland's marginalization by consigning Scottish culture into the past while drawing a mist over harsher realities." "Kenneth McNeil invokes recent work in postcolonial studies to show how British writers of the Romantic period were actually shaping a more complex national and imperial consciousness. He discusses canonical works - the works of James Macpherson and Sir Walter Scott - and noncanonical and nonliterary works - particularly in the fields of historiography, anthropology, and sociology. This book calls for a rethinking of the "romanticization" of the Highlands and shows that Scottish writing on the Highlands reflects the unique circumstances of a culture simultaneously feeling the weight of imperial "anglobalization" while playing a vital role in its inception."--Jacket |
Notes |
This work examines representation of the Scottish Highlands in the Romantic and early Victorian periods, the call for preserving the Scottish national identity while being part of the British union |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-221) and index |
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English literature -- Scottish authors -- History and criticism
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Scottish literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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National characteristics, Scottish, in literature.
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Ethnology in literature.
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Civilization, Celtic, in literature.
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Nationalism in literature.
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Imperialism in literature.
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Civilization, Celtic, in literature
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Civilization -- Historiography
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English literature -- Scottish authors
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Ethnology in literature
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Imperialism in literature
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International relations
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Literature
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National characteristics, Scottish, in literature
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Nationalism in literature
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Scottish literature
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Englische Literatur -- Motiv -- Schottland.
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Englische Literatur -- Motiv -- Imperialismus.
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Imperialismus -- Motiv -- Englische Literatur.
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Englische Literatur -- Schottland -- Romantik.
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Literatur -- Englisch -- Motiv (Literatur) -- Grossbritannien -- Highlands -- Geschichte -- 1760-1860.
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Literatur
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Nationalbewusstsein
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Highlands (Scotland) -- In literature
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Scotland -- Relations -- England
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Scotland -- Civilization -- Historiography
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England
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Scotland
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Scotland -- Highlands
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England -- Schottland -- Geschichte 19. Jh.
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Schottland -- Motiv -- Englische Literatur.
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England -- Schottland -- Geschichte 18. Jh.
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Schottland -- England -- Geschichte 18. Jh.
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Schottland -- England -- Geschichte 19. Jh.
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Highlands -- Motiv (Literatur) -- Englisch -- Geschichte -- 1760-1860.
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Schottland -- Grossbritannien -- England -- Geschichte -- 1760-1860.
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England -- Grossbritannien -- Schottland -- Geschichte -- 1760-1860.
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Schottland <Motiv>
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Englisch.
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2006026529 |
ISBN |
9780814272305 |
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0814272304 |