LEADER 03584nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910785637503321 005 20230721044046.0 010 $a0-300-17653-8 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300176537 035 $a(CKB)2670000000233751 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23056516 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000720966 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11434188 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000720966 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10686414 035 $a(PQKB)10054555 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3421028 035 $a(DE-B1597)486379 035 $a(OCoLC)1024006720 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300176537 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3421028 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10587838 035 $a(OCoLC)923600051 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000233751 100 $a20070803d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe invention of Scotland$b[electronic resource] $emyth and history /$fHugh Trevor-Roper 210 $aNew Haven [Conn.] $cYale University Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (304 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-13686-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [237]-267) and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aThis 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 This compelling manuscript was left unpublished on Trevor-Roper's death in 2003 and is now made available for the first time.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-Roper 606 $aNational characteristics, Scottish$xHistoriography 607 $aScotland$xHistoriography 607 $aScotland$xCivilization$xHistoriography 607 $aScotland$xHistory 615 0$aNational characteristics, Scottish$xHistoriography. 676 $a941.10072 686 $aHD 405$2rvk 700 $aTrevor-Roper$b H. R$g(Hugh Redwald),$f1914-2003.$0173253 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785637503321 996 $aThe invention of Scotland$93671083 997 $aUNINA