03443nam 2200577 450 991080845570332120180731202620.01-61148-679-3(CKB)3710000000531724(EBL)4189575(SSID)ssj0001591422(PQKBManifestationID)16288266(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001591422(PQKBWorkID)14793580(PQKB)10126511(MiAaPQ)EBC4189575(EXLCZ)99371000000053172420160104h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEssential Scots and the idea of unionism in Anglo-Scottish literature, 1603-1832 /Rivka SwensonLewisburg, Pennsylvania :Bucknell University Press,2016.©20161 online resource (349 p.)Transits: Literature, Thought & CultureDescription based upon print version of record.1-61148-680-7 1-61148-678-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 OssianPart 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 AUTHOREssential 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, aTransits (Bucknell University)English literatureScottish authorsHistory and criticismScots in literatureLiterature and societyScotlandEnglish literatureScottish authorsHistory and criticism.Scots in literature.Literature and society820.9/9411Swenson Rivka1973-1671601MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808455703321Essential Scots and the idea of unionism in Anglo-Scottish literature, 1603-18324034276UNINA