1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910132494103321

Autore

Price Fiona L.

Titolo

Reinventing Liberty / Fiona Price

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1474426077

147442211X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Edinburgh critical studies in romanticism

Disciplina

810/820

Soggetti

Historical fiction, English

English literature

Historical fiction, English - History and criticism

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

English literature - 18th century - History and criticism

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-234) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Ancient liberties -- The labours of history -- Uneasy alliance : liberty and the nation -- Conserving histories : chivalry, science and liberty -- The end of history? Scott, his precursors and the violent past.

Sommario/riassunto

"The British historical novel has often been defined in the terms set by Walter Scott's fiction, as a reflection on a clear break between past and present. Reinventing Liberty challenges this view by returning us to the rich range of historical novels written in the late eighteenth-century. It explores how these works participated in a contentious debate concerning political change and British national identity. Ranging across well-known writers, such as William Godwin, Horace Walpole and Frances Burney, to lesser-known figures, including Cornelia Ellis Knight and Jane Porter, 'Reinventing Liberty' reveals how history becomes a site to rethink Britain as 'land of liberty' and positions Scott in relation to this tradition."--



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910337742703321

Autore

Foster Gary S

Titolo

Cemeteries and the Life of a Smoky Mountain Community : Cades Cove Under Foot / / by Gary S. Foster, William E. Lovekamp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2019

ISBN

9783030232955

3030232956

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (173 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Palgrave pivot

Disciplina

976.91

304.20976889

Soggetti

Political sociology

Ethnology

Human geography

Cultural geography

United States - History

Regionalism

Cultural property - Protection

Political Sociology

Sociocultural Anthropology

Social and Cultural Geography

US History

Cultural Resource Management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. A Primer on Cades Cove -- Chapter 2. Cades Cove as Community -- Chapter 3. Death Culture of the Upland South: A Context for Cades Cove -- Chapter 4. Cemeteries as Windows into Communities -- Chapter 5. The Cemeteries of Cades Cove -- Chapter 6. A Census of Cades Cove through Gravestones -- Chapter 7. A Quantitative Reelling of Cades Cove's Cemeteries -- Chapter 8. A Conclusion to the Story of Cades Cove's Cemeteries -- Chapter 9. Cemeteries: A Reflection and Epilogue -- Appendix A: The Etiquette



and Protocol of Visiting Cades Cove Cemeteries. .

Sommario/riassunto

Foster and Lovekamp offer a clear approach to reconsidering our cemeteries as a valued source of data and community history. In placing Cades Cove cemeteries into the context of spatial and social trends of their era, the authors help us understand life and death for people living in the Great Smoky Mountains before its designation as a national park. -James Maples, Associate Professor of Sociology, Eastern Kentucky University, USA In one of the few studies to draw upon cemetery data to reconstruct the social organization, social change, and community composition of a specific area, this volume contributes to the growing body of sociohistorical examinations of Appalachia. The authors herein reconstruct the Cades Cove community in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, USA, a mountain community from circa 1818 to 1939, whose demise can be traced to the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. By supplementing a statistical analysis of Cades Cove's twenty-seven cemeteries, completed as a National Park Study (#GRSM-01120), with ethnographic examination, the authors reconstruct the community in detail to reveal previously overlooked social patterns and interactions, including insight into the death culture and death-lore of the Upland South. This work establishes cemeteries as window into (proxies of) communities, demonstrating the relevance of socio-demographic data presented by statistical and other analyses of gravestones for Appalachian Studies, Regional Studies, Cemetery Studies, and Sociology and Anthropology.