1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910290058703321

Titolo

Almanacco marittimo italiano / compilato a cura della Federazione italiana fra i Corpi dei Piloti dei porti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma : Fedepiloti, 1963

Descrizione fisica

XV, 1281 p., [14] c. di tav. : ill. ; 21 cm

Disciplina

359

Locazione

DINTR

Collocazione

P4/8

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910808455703321

Autore

Swenson Rivka <1973->

Titolo

Essential Scots and the idea of unionism in Anglo-Scottish literature, 1603-1832 / / Rivka Swenson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : , : Bucknell University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-61148-679-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (349 p.)

Collana

Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture

Disciplina

820.9/9411

Soggetti

English literature - Scottish authors - History and criticism

Scots in literature

Literature and society - Scotland

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; Part I. ESSENTIAL SCOTTISHNESS AND THE FORM OF ORIGINAL ANGLO-SCOTTISH DISCONTENT; CHAPTER 1. WRITING



ANGLO-SCOTTISH UNIONISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS IN 1603 AND 1707: Francis Bacon, Daniel Defoe, and English Anxieties of Narration; CHAPTER 2. WRITING REUNION, REWRITING UNION FOR THE ATOMIC SCOT: Tobias Smollett's Traveling Types after the '45 and Seven Years War; CHAPTER 3. 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 WRITINGCHAPTER 4. INDIVIDUAL CONCERNS, THE MOCK-GOTHIC, AND MARRIAGE TROUBLE: Anglo-Scottish Self-Difference in Susan Ferrier's Laboratory; CHAPTER 5. 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; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sommario/riassunto

Essential Scots scrutinizes diverse texts from the Union of Crowns and James VI/I's Edinburgh-London emigration to the aftermath of George IV's London-Edinburgh-London journey more than two centuries later, 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. The essential Scot's supposed aptitude for personal resistance and recovery were marshaled by Scottish and English writers to formally challenge, accommodate, generate, revise, a