03615nam 2200625 a 450 991095567250332120251117084348.00-300-17653-810.12987/9780300176537(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(OCoLC)1024006720(EXLCZ)99267000000023375120070803d2008 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrThe invention of Scotland myth and history /Hugh Trevor-Roper1st ed.New 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 This compelling manuscript was left unpublished on Trevor-Roper's death in 2003 and is now made available for the first time.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, ScottishHistoriographyScotlandHistoriographyScotlandCivilizationHistoriographyScotlandHistoryNational characteristics, ScottishHistoriography.941.10072HD 405rvkTrevor-Roper H. R(Hugh Redwald),1914-2003.173253MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910955672503321The invention of Scotland4528722UNINA