Kenneth Mcneil

Scottish Romanticism and Collective Memory in the British Atlantic (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Charts Scottish Romanticism's significant contribution to the making of collective memory in the transatlantic worldOffers an in-depth examination of Scottish Romantic literary ideas on memory and their influence among various cultures in the British Atlantic, broken down into distinct writing modes (memorials, travel memoir, slave narrative, colonial policy paper, emigrant fiction) and contexts (pre- and post-Revolution America, French-Canadian cultural nationalism, the slavery debate, immigration and colonial settlement).Looks at familiar Scottish writers (Walter Scott, John Galt) in new ways, while introducing less familiar ones (Anne Grant, Thomas Pringle).Brings Scottish Romantic literary studies into new engagements with other fields (such as transatlantic and memory studies).Opens up new dialogues between Scottish literature and culture and other literatures and cultures (for example, French-Canadian, Black Diaspora, Indigenous).Scots, who were at the vanguard of British colonial expansion in North America in the Romantic period, believed that their own nation had undergone an unprecedented transformation in only a short span of time. Scottish writers became preoccupied with collective memory, its powerful role in shaping group identity as well as its delicate fragility. McNeil reveals why we must add collective memory to the list of significant contributions Scots made to a culture of modernity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474455480
• Artikelnr.: 72428491

Autorenporträt

Eastern Connecticut State University Kenneth McNeil is Professor of English at Eastern Connecticut State University. He is the author of Scotland, Britain, Empire: Writing the Highlands, 1760-1860 (2007) and several articles and book chapters on Scottish literature of the Romantic period.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Aftermaths: Walter Scott and Imagining Collective Memory in the
Transatlantic World
2. Memory on the Margins: Anne Grant's Atlantic World
3. Indigenous Elsewhere: Lord Selkirk and Native Memory and Resettlement
4. Memory, Identity, and the Scottish Remembrance of Slavery
5. John Galt and Circum-Atlantic Memory
Index