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Swenson Rivka <1973-> |
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Essential Scots and the idea of unionism in Anglo-Scottish literature, 1603-1832 / / Rivka Swenson |
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Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : , : Bucknell University Press, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (349 p.) |
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Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture |
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English literature - Scottish authors - History and criticism |
Scots in literature |
Literature and society - Scotland |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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, |
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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 |
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