03590nam 2200601 a 450 991046208260332120200520144314.00-300-17653-810.12987/9780300176537(CKB)2670000000233751(StDuBDS)AH23056516(SSID)ssj0000720966(PQKBManifestationID)11434188(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000720966(PQKBWorkID)10686414(PQKB)10054555(MiAaPQ)EBC3421028(DE-B1597)486379(OCoLC)1024006720(DE-B1597)9780300176537(Au-PeEL)EBL3421028(CaPaEBR)ebr10587838(OCoLC)923600051(EXLCZ)99267000000023375120070803d2008 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrThe invention of Scotland[electronic resource] myth and history /Hugh Trevor-RoperNew Haven [Conn.] Yale University Pressc20081 online resource (304 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-300-13686-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-267) and index.The political myth. Scotia's rise to glory? -- George Buchanan -- Buchanan's nemesis -- The literary myth. The search for a Celtic Homer -- James Macpherson and Fingal -- The controversy over Ossian -- The sartorial myth. The coming of the kilt -- The tartan.This book argues that while Anglo-Saxon culture has given rise to virtually no myths at all, myth has played a central role in the historical development of Scottish identity. Hugh Trevor-Roper explores three myths across 400 years of Scottish history: the political myth of the "ancient constitution" of Scotland; the literary myth, including Walter Scott as well as Ossian and ancient poetry; and the sartorial myth of tartan and the kilt, invented-ironically, by Englishmen-in quite modern times. Trevor-Roper reveals myth as an often deliberate cultural construction used to enshrine a people's identity. While his treatment of Scottish myth is highly critical, indeed debunking, he shows how the ritualization and domestication of Scotland's myths as local color diverted the Scottish intelligentsia from the path that led German intellectuals to a dangerous myth of racial supremacy. This compelling manuscript was left unpublished on Trevor-Roper's death in 2003 and is now made available for the first time. Written with characteristic elegance, lucidity, and wit, and containing defiant and challenging opinions, it will absorb and provoke Scottish readers while intriguing many others. "I believe that the whole history of Scotland has been coloured by myth; and that myth, in Scotland, is never driven out by reality, or by reason, but lingers on until another myth has been discovered, or elaborated, to replace it."-Hugh Trevor-RoperNational characteristics, ScottishHistoriographyScotlandHistoriographyScotlandCivilizationHistoriographyScotlandHistoryElectronic books.National characteristics, ScottishHistoriography.941.10072Trevor-Roper H. R(Hugh Redwald),1914-2003.173253MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462082603321The invention of Scotland2468439UNINA