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Scotland, Britain, Empire : Writing the Highlands, 1760-1860 /
"Scotland, Britain, Empire takes on a cliche that permeates writing from and about the literature of the Scottish Highlands. Popular and influential in its time, this literature fell into disrepute for circulating a distorted and deforming myth that aided in Scotland's marginalization by c...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbus :
Ohio State University Press,
[2007]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Scotland, Britain, Empire takes on a cliche that permeates writing from and about the literature of the Scottish Highlands. Popular and influential in its time, this literature fell into disrepute for circulating a distorted and deforming myth that aided in Scotland's marginalization by consigning Scottish culture into the past while drawing a mist over harsher realities." "Kenneth McNeil invokes recent work in postcolonial studies to show how British writers of the Romantic period were actually shaping a more complex national and imperial consciousness. He discusses canonical works - the works of James Macpherson and Sir Walter Scott - and noncanonical and nonliterary works - particularly in the fields of historiography, anthropology, and sociology. This book calls for a rethinking of the "romanticization" of the Highlands and shows that Scottish writing on the Highlands reflects the unique circumstances of a culture simultaneously feeling the weight of imperial "anglobalization" while playing a vital role in its inception."--Jacket. |
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| Notas: | This work examines representation of the Scottish Highlands in the Romantic and early Victorian periods, the call for preserving the Scottish national identity while being part of the British union. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (228 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780814272305 |
| Acceso: | Open Access |