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Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination [[electronic resource] ] : Anglophone Writing from 1600 to 1900 / / Silke Stroh
| Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination [[electronic resource] ] : Anglophone Writing from 1600 to 1900 / / Silke Stroh |
| Autore | Stroh Silke |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Evanston, Illinois : , : Northwestern University Press, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (340 pages) |
| Disciplina | 820.99411 |
| Soggetto topico |
Postcolonialism in literature
Celts in literature Scottish literature - 19th century - History and criticism Scottish literature - 18th century - History and criticism |
| ISBN | 0-8101-3404-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | The modern nation-state and its others: civilizing missions at home and abroad, ca. 1600 to 1800 -- Anglophone literature of civilization and the hybridized Gaelic subject: Martin Martin's travel writings -- The reemergence of the primitive other? Noble savagery and the romantic age -- From flirtations with romantic otherness to a more integrated national synthesis: "Gentleman savages" in Walter Scott's novel Waverley -- Of Celts and Teutons: racial biology and anti-Gaelic discourse, ca. 1780-1860 -- Racist reversals: Appropriating racial typology in late-nineteenth-century pro-Gaelic discourse. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910213853903321 |
Stroh Silke
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| Evanston, Illinois : , : Northwestern University Press, , 2017 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Uneasy subjects [[electronic resource] ] : postcolonialism and Scottish Gaelic poetry / / Silke Stroh
| Uneasy subjects [[electronic resource] ] : postcolonialism and Scottish Gaelic poetry / / Silke Stroh |
| Autore | Stroh Silke |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, : Rodopi, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (379 p.) |
| Disciplina | 891.631 |
| Collana | Scottish cultural review of language and literature |
| Soggetto topico |
Scottish Gaelic poetry
Postcolonialism |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 94-012-0057-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Colonial beginnings? Celticity, Gaeldom and Scotland until the end of the Middle Ages -- The capitalist nation state and its “civilising missions”: Gaelic identities in flux -- The emergence of an anticolonial voice? -- Mission accomplished – perhaps too well? Romanticism and noble savagery -- When the civilising mission fails: racism, resistance and revival -- Discourses of decolonisation? Cultural cringes, discursive authority, rewriting history, and nationalist poetry -- Language matters, indigenous cultural values, education, and direct postcolonial alignments -- Against traditionalism and nativism? Pluralism, innovation, internationalism and hybridity as alternative decolonising strategies -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456473103321 |
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Stroh Silke
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| Amsterdam, : Rodopi, 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Uneasy subjects : postcolonialism and Scottish Gaelic poetry / / Silke Stroh
| Uneasy subjects : postcolonialism and Scottish Gaelic poetry / / Silke Stroh |
| Autore | Stroh Silke |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam : , : Rodopi, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (379 pages) |
| Disciplina | 891.631 |
| Collana | Scottish cultural review of language and literature |
| Soggetto topico |
Scottish Gaelic poetry - History and criticism
Postcolonialism |
| ISBN | 94-012-0057-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Colonial beginnings? Celticity, Gaeldom and Scotland until the end of the Middle Ages -- The capitalist nation state and its “civilising missions”: Gaelic identities in flux -- The emergence of an anticolonial voice? -- Mission accomplished – perhaps too well? Romanticism and noble savagery -- When the civilising mission fails: racism, resistance and revival -- Discourses of decolonisation? Cultural cringes, discursive authority, rewriting history, and nationalist poetry -- Language matters, indigenous cultural values, education, and direct postcolonial alignments -- Against traditionalism and nativism? Pluralism, innovation, internationalism and hybridity as alternative decolonising strategies -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781307203321 |
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Stroh Silke
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| Amsterdam : , : Rodopi, , 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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