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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: McNeil, Kenneth (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2007]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Native tongue": Ossian, national origins, and the problem of translation
  • Roby Roy and the King's visit: modernity and the nation-as-tribe
  • Britain's "Imperial man": Walter Scott, David Stewart, and Highland masculinity
  • "Petticoated devils": Highland soldiers, martial races, and the Indian mutiny
  • "Not absolutely a native nor entirely a strange": Anne Grant, Queen Victoria, and the Highland travelogue.