Rivka Swenson

Essential Scots and the Idea of Unionism in Anglo-Scottish Literature, 1603-1832

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Produktbeschreibung

Essential Scots scrutinizes diverse texts, exposing how the "essential" Scot, allegedly possessed of a uniquely durable, influential identity, shaped the literary-cultural narrative imagination from 1603-1832, with implications for the twenty-first century.

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Produktdetails

• Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 565g
• ISBN-13: 9781611486803
• ISBN-10: 1611486807
• Artikelnr.: 48894529

Autorenporträt

By Rivka Swenson

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Introduction
Part I: Essential Scottishness and the Form of Original Anglo-Scottish
Discontent One: Writing Anglo-Scottish Unionism and its Discontents in 1603
and 1707: Francis Bacon, Daniel Defoe, and English Anxieties of Narration
Two: Writing Reunion, Rewriting Union for the Atomic Scot: Tobias
Smollett's Traveling Types after the '45 and Seven Years War Three: Writing
Revolution as Essential Recovery: Samuel Johnson's Return to Scotland after
Ossian Part II: Unionism and the Challenge of the Individual in Early
Nineteenth-Century Scottish Writing Four: Individual Concerns, the
Mock-Gothic, and Marriage Trouble: Anglo-Scottish Self-Difference in Susan
Ferrier's Laboratory Five: Describing the Subnational Hinge in 1822: Robert
Mudie and the Aesthetic Politics of the Synthetic British Text Coda: Walter
Scott and the Legacy of Chosen Scottishness Bibliography Index About the
Author