Essential Scots and the idea of unionism in Anglo-Scottish literature, 1603-1832 / / Rivka Swenson
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| Autore: |
Swenson Rivka <1973->
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| Titolo: |
Essential Scots and the idea of unionism in Anglo-Scottish literature, 1603-1832 / / Rivka Swenson
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| Pubblicazione: | Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : , : Bucknell University Press, , 2016 |
| ©2016 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (349 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 820.9/9411 |
| Soggetto topico: | English literature - Scottish authors - History and criticism |
| Scots in literature | |
| Literature and society - Scotland | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 Ossian |
| Part 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 AUTHOR | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Essential 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, a |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Essential Scots and the idea of unionism in Anglo-Scottish literature, 1603-1832 |
| ISBN: | 1-61148-679-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910808455703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Transits (Bucknell University)